Bangladesh needs greater focus on renewable energy
Energy experts at a meeting in the capital Dhaka on Sunday urged the interim government for taking pragmatic actions for renewable energy projects amid growing demands for power and energy as...
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Incumbent stronger than previous governments in Bangladesh: Fauzul
Criticising sections of people perceiving the interim government as 鈥榮oft to illogical demands鈥�,聽 power, energy, and mineral resources adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan claimed on Sunday that the incumbent government is the strongest in the history of independent Bangladesh.
Cash-strapped Cuba faces blackout after power plant failure
Cuba was racing Friday to restore electricity after the failure of the island's biggest power plant caused a nationwide blackout, coming on the heels of weeks of extended outages across the cash-strapped country.
BPDB piece rate workers demand job regularisation
The 鈥榩iece rate鈥� workers of Bangladesh Power Development Board on Wednesday demanded regularisation of their jobs.
Global economic power equation
AS CHINA marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People鈥檚 Republic, it stands as a testament to an extraordinary transformation. From the ruins of civil war in 1949, China emerged battered and impoverished, with few expecting the nation would rise to such global prominence. Over the past seven decades, China鈥檚 leaders have orchestrated a remarkable transformation, lifting over 800 million citizens out of...
MJF holds event on women鈥檚 empowerment
Manusher Jonno Foundation held an event titled Women鈥檚 Empowerment: Women鈥檚 Voice and Leadership Bangladesh Project was organised at the Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel in the capital, said a press release on Wednesday...
Unsanctioned ink: graffiti power and public memory
WHAT started as emancipatory self-expression was soon subjected to the dominant aesthetic regime. What started as 鈥榗hika mara,鈥� a signifier of direct state repression, was soon turned into a sanctioned practice. But graffiti remains graffiti by virtue of its unsanctioned nature 鈥� the defiance and the subversive potential it...
Uprising only transition of power so far: discussion
Writer and professor Salimullah Khan on Friday at a discussion in Dhaka said that the July-August uprising resulted in only a transition of power and nothing new was born completely in the past two months...
NRC invites complaints on corruption in energy sector
The National Review Committee invited people to submit evidences or information regarding corruption in power and energy sector, according to a public notification issued by the...
Coal power plants charge astronomical costs for fuel
Coal-fired power plants enjoy free rein to unfairly influence the cost of its fuel on the one hand, while on the other, they burn coal having quality far less than the one the government has paid...
Walton launches solar hybrid IPS
Walton Digi-Tech Industries Limited has launched solar hybrid IPS that ensures environment friendly, renewable and affordable power supply, said a press release...
Rohingya crisis and regional powers
THE Rohingya crisis, which began in 2017 with the forced migration of over 700,000 Rohingya individuals from Myanmar to Bangladesh, continues to represent one of the most intricate humanitarian and geopolitical dilemmas in South and Southeast Asia. Bangladesh has been pivotal in offering sanctuary and addressing the challenges posed by this...
Bangladesh to sign tripartite deal to import power from Nepal soon: adviser
Bangladesh is poised to sign the tripartite agreement with Nepal and India soon to import hydropower from Nepal via Indian transmission lines, according to power, energy and mineral resources adviser Md Fouzul Kabir Khan...
BNP for army鈥檚 magistracy in areas with poor law and order situation
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday said that the interim government should rethink the decision of giving the army to exercise magistracy power across the country.
Russia assures of Rooppur plant completion
Foreign secretary Ambassador Md Jashim Uddin on Wednesday thanked Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Vikentyevich Mantytskiy for Russian Federation鈥檚 ongoing support, particularly in the implementation of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project...
Police officials yet to join won鈥檛 be allowed to join anymore: adviser
Home adviser Lt Gen Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (retd) said on Wednesday that the people would get benefit of bestowing magistracy power upon the army...
S Alam takes Tk 3,287cr in power capacity charge
The coal-based 1,224MW Banshkhali power station, owned by the controversial S Alam group, realised up to more than double the amount received by its peers in capacity charge payment in the 2023鈥�24 financial year, revealed data obtained from the Bangladesh Power Development Board...
People to get benefit of giving magistracy power to army, home adviser says
Home adviser Lt Gen Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, retd, said on Wednesday the people would get benefit of bestowing magistracy power upon the army.
Govt should mend loopholes in energy import for rental power
RENTAL power plants, set up as an emergency measure under an indemnity law to resolve power shortage soon after the Awami League had assumed office in 2009 that ended in a permanent arrangement to drain the state exchequer by channelling public money into private pockets through capacity charge payment, have not only been a great burden to the economy...
Two killed, seven injured as bus hits auto-rickshaw in Pabna
Two passengers of a battery-run auto-rickshaw were killed and seven others, including the auto-rickshaw driver, were injured after a bus rammed their vehicle in Pabna on Sunday morning, said the police.
Power producers make wicked profits
Bangladesh spent 20 per cent extra in the overall import of furnace oil for power generation during the tenure of the immediate past Awami League government thanks to the...
Govt must move back on Adani power agreement
THE agreement with India鈥檚 Adani Power by way of which it supplies Bangladesh with power from a 1.6GW Godda plant built in the Indian state of Jharkhand exclusively for the...
Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant resumes supplying electricity to national grid
The Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has resumed partial electricity production after three days.
Cancellation of LNG projects, moratorium on coal demanded
Civil society members, particularly green activists, on Thursday announced their expectation from the chief adviser 鈥� a set of 16 reformation in the power and energy sector.
Power, communication sectors reform underway: Kabir
Adviser to the ministry of power, energy and mineral resources Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Thursday said that the government had embarked reforming the power, energy, road, bridges and railway sectors to fulfil the expectation of the people...
PDB says Adani dues inflated by 32pc
The Bangladesh Power Development Board estimated that it owed to the Indian Adani Power $547 million, about 32 per cent less than what was claimed by the company, a sister concern of the...
Power, communication sectors鈥� reform underway: adviser
Adviser to the interim government Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Thursday said that the government had embarked reforming the power, energy, road, bridges and railway sectors to fulfil the expectation of the people...
Frequent power cuts due to looting of AL: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday said that the frequency of power cuts had increased dramatically in the country due to the looting and laundering of huge amounts of money by the previous Awami League government.
Power cut for 19hrs in villages, 5hrs in cities
Cities suffered an unprecedented spell of power outage on Tuesday, over five hours at a stretch, as barely 12,500MW of electricity on average was produced, using 45 per cent of the...
Power generation halts at Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant
The Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has ceased operations after all three of its power-generating units became non-operational.
