Bangladesh to build LNG import terminal with US group
Bangladesh will ink an initial agreement in end-May with the US consortium comprising Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy for building the country’s first LNG import terminal at Moheshkhali Island, a senior Petrobangla official said Friday.
The Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy consortium was selected to build the terminal in August 2012, but the US companies wanted to reach an agreement on maintenance fees before signing the final construction deal.
Petrobangla has now agreed to provide maintenance fees to keep the proposed LNG terminal operative until imports start, the official said.
Bangladesh, India strike electricity corridor deal
The Bangladeshi and Indian governments tentatively struck a power co-operation deal for 2017 that would allow India to transmit electricity from its northeastern states to Bihar through Bangladesh territory. In exchange, Bangladesh would get a daily minimum of 500 to 1,000 in additional megawatts, the Daily Star reported.
Under the deal, reached April 3rd at the seventh meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee on Power Co-operation, the two countries agreed to connect their distribution networks for the transfer of 6,000MW of hydroelectricity from Assam to northwestern Bihar via Boro Pukuria in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
Saudi liberal gets 10 years in jail, 1,000 lashes
A Saudi court sentenced Raef Badawi, the founder of a human rights group, to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes Wednesday over “insulting Islam,” an activist said.
Badawi, who has been behind bars since June 2012, has also been ordered to pay a fine of one million riyals ($266,666/191,846 euros), said the head of the network, Suad al-Shamari, AFP reports.
“He is a prisoner of conscience,” said Shamari, pointing out that there is “no criminal charge against him.”
“The ruling is unjust,” she told AFP.
Badawi was sentenced in July 2013 to ...
Badawi, who has been behind bars since June 2012, has also been ordered to pay a fine of one million riyals ($266,666/191,846 euros), said the head of the network, Suad al-Shamari, AFP reports.
“He is a prisoner of conscience,” said Shamari, pointing out that there is “no criminal charge against him.”
“The ruling is unjust,” she told AFP.
Badawi was sentenced in July 2013 to ...
India admits ‘Delhi as polluted as Beijing’
India’s state air monitoring centre made a rare admission Thursday that pollution in New Delhi was comparable with Beijing, but disputed a WHO finding that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world.
A study of 1,600 cities across 91 countries released on Wednesday by the WHO showed Delhi had the world’s highest annual average concentration of small airborne particles known as PM2.5 of 153.
These extremely fine particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter are linked with increased rates of chronic bronchitis, lung canc...
These extremely fine particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter are linked with increased rates of chronic bronchitis, lung canc...
Three US navy planes crushed in Japan snow
At least three US Navy P-3 Orion surveillance planes were crushed “beyond repair” when unusually heavy snowfall swept across Japan in February, a US military daily reported Wednesday.
The planes were inside a contractor’s hangar near the US Navy air facility in Atsugi, west of Tokyo, the Pacific Stars and Stripes said in its online edition, citing a US Naval spokeswoman, AFP reports.
A US Orion and six P-3 variants from the Japanese defence forces brought in for repairs or checks were also there.
The 550-foot (168-metre)-long han...
A US Orion and six P-3 variants from the Japanese defence forces brought in for repairs or checks were also there.
The 550-foot (168-metre)-long han...
BIAC’s 3rd anniversary dialogue held in city
BIAC’s 3rd anniversary dialogue titled “Is Arbitration Losing Ground to Mediation, for Settlement of Commercial Disputes?” was held on Thursday (8 May 2014) at a local hotel. The keynote speaker at the Dialogue was Washington DC based Attorney Joseph R Profaizer. Mahbubur Rahman, Chairman BIAC Council presided over the function.
Welcoming the guests, Dr. Toufiq Ali, Chief Executive observed that BIAC shaped itself as the country’s first ADR service provider organization. He recalled contribution o...
Welcoming the guests, Dr. Toufiq Ali, Chief Executive observed that BIAC shaped itself as the country’s first ADR service provider organization. He recalled contribution o...
