A private firm in Bangladesh is planning to put up a 30 MW solar power plant on Madarer Char, an island formed by sediments brought down from the Himalayas by the Teesta river. A joint venture with a French company, the island is in the Dimla sub-district of Nilphamari district in north-western Bangladesh, about 40 km downstream from the place where the transboundary river Teesta enters Bangladesh from India.
The joint venture company formed for the purpose by Bangladeshi business house Nilsagor Group and the French company Velcan Energy will sell the electricity to the national grid.
While a sediment-formed island – called char – can suffer partial or complete inundation, some
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Robi has distributed relief items to 300 flood affected families in Char Chilmari – a remote village in Doulatpur, Kushtia.
Lt. Col. Md. Shahidul Islam, Commander of 47 Border Guard Battalion was present to coordinate the distribution. Robi’s Manager, Corporate Responsibility, Shafiqur Rahman
Bhuiyan; Regional Manager Kushtia Shikder Md. Amir Khasru; Area Manager Md. Moshiur Rahman and Manager Cluster Facilities Raziuddin Bhuiya were present on the occasion.
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Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) organized a national level workshop on “Prospects of natural fiber based product and the closing ceremony of the project” today under Bangladesh INSPIRED program funded by the Ministry of Industries, GoB and the European Union at Ivy Rahman Auditorium, Bangladesh Mohila Somity, Dhaka. Mr. Amir Hossain Amu, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Industries, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh graced the occasion as the Chief Guest, while Mr. Mario Ronconi, Minister Counsellor and Head of Cooperation, Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh was present as the Guest of Honor and Mr. Shushen Chandra Das, Project Director, Bangladesh INSPIRED and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Mr. Sirajul Islam, Dir...
Independent upstream oil and gas company KrisEnergy has commenced drilling at the Bangora-6 development well in the Block 9 production sharing contract, onshore Bangladesh.
The Bapex Bijoy 10 rig is being used to drill the Bangora-6 development well from the Golpanagar site in the northern section of Block 9, which is located approximately 50 km east of Dhaka.
The company plans to drill the well to a total measured depth of 3,786m.
In 2015, gross production from the Bangora field averaged 106 million cubi...
Bangladesh exports earned $3.3 billion in August, a 20 percent increase from a year earlier, driven by a surge in shipments, government data showed on Tuesday.
Exports had fallen 3.5 percent to $2.5 billion in July due to the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks
the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
For July-August, the first two months of the 2016-17 financial year, e...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited handed over prizes among winners in the 'Islami Bank VISA Khidmah Credit Card Special Campaign' jointly offered by Islami Bank and VISA through a function at Tower on September 5, 2016.
Md. Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, FCA, Md. Mahbub-ul-Alam & Md. Shamsuzzaman, Deputy
Managing Directors, Md. Nazrul Islam Khan & Md. Mosharraf Hossain, Executive Vice Presidents along with senior executives of the Bank were present on the occasion.
A total of 18 Islami Bank clients including Nazrul Islam of N...
