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ABB wins Rs 172cr order from Bangladesh power grid

ABB India Ltd, a subsidiary of Swiss engineering group ABB, said it has won a Rs 172-crore order from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. PowerThe order is for supply of four 132/33kV turnkey substations. ABB will also help Power Grid Company expand its six other substations. “Developing countries have the opportunity to directly adopt technologically advanced infrastructure that deliver greater efficiency and have a smaller carbon footprint,” Bazmi Husain, country manager at ABB India, said in a statement. Power Grid Company is in the process of upgr...

Asian Tourism Fair in city from Thursday

The 3rd Asian Tourism Fair (ATF) will kick off at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city on Thursday. The three-day fair will be orgainsed by monthly Magazine Parjatan Bichitra in cooperation with Bangladesh Tourism Board and Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation. Bangladesh-TourismCivil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon will formally inaugurate the fair in the morning. The fair will be opened from 11am to 8pm for every day. The entry fee for the fair is Tk 20. Apart from Banglad...

L&T signs $200m contract for gas-based plant in BD

Larsen & Toubro has announced signing of a $200-million (Rs. 1200 crore at 1 dollar = 60 rupees) contract with Bangladesh Power Development Board to set up a 225 MW gas-based power plant in Bangladesh. “The contract, which is valued at about $200 million, was secured by L&T in May, 2014,” the company said in a statement on Tuesday. power plantThe contract was signed between Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) secretary Mohd Zahirul Haque and L&T vice president Saurabh Indwar in Dhaka on Sunday. Four development partners of ...

Power can be India’s bargain point with Bangladesh

Power demand of Bangladesh can be a better bargaining point for India to get few important and old cross border issues resolved out. BJP, the first constituent of ruling NDA Government in India is keen on getting the issues squared up fast. Bangladesh has taken up a plan to import 3,500 MW of electricity from SAARC countries by 2030 under its power sector master plan. With its geographical boundary surrounding Bengaldesh, India is best suited one in SAARC to export power to Bangladesh. bd-indiaBangladesh now imports 500MW from India. A process of furt...

Tourism rebounds on Eid vacationers

The tourism industry expects good business from the Eid as hotel and resort operators received a lot of bookings in the run-up to the festival, thanks to a stable political climate. “We expect an increased number of tourists during the Eid vacation,” said Omar Sultan, president of Cox’s Bazar Hotel-Motel and Guesthouse Owners Association. Different hotels, motels and guesthouses in the beach city have sold 50 percent of the rooms for the July 31-August 1 duration, he said. Bangladesh-TourismThe industry was hit hard l...

Biman sitting idle with large planes  

All six Boeing 777s of Biman remain underutilised for lack of long-haul flights and pilots, causing the national carrier to lose crores of taka every year. “More than 20 percent of the operational capacity of the planes remain unutilised, as we could not open routes in line with their capacity,” an official at Biman’s operations department told The Daily Star on condition of anonymity, reports the Daily Star. The calculation was made given that each of the six aircraft flies 12 hours a day, the official said. biman-300Sometimes, a shortage of pi...
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