The government signed a deal with China to set up a 1,320 MW coal based power plant in Moheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
Mr Abduhu Ruhullah, chairman of Bangladesh Power Development Board and Mr Zhao Longjun, president of Huadian Hong Kong Company of China, signed the memorandum of understanding at Bidyut Bhaban in the capital.
Under the agreement, BPDB and the Chinese company will jointly build 2 units with a capacity of 660 MW each by 2019.
Mr Abduhu said that China will install ultra supercritical technology at the plant to meet envir...
During the yearly south Asian monsoon, almost all the water collected by the Himalayas in Nepal, north/northeast India and Bhutan transits through Bangladesh on its journey to the Bay of Bengal, depositing life-giving minerals to the soil all along the Ganges Delta, the largest river delta in the world. It is here that the mountains literally crumble to the sea.
This has resulted in Bangladesh’s flatland alluvial topography, which is the defining characteristic of the country except in the hilly regions of the southeast and northeast. The mighty Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers are called the Padma and the Jamuna in Bangladesh, and both of these massive rivers join several other smaller tributaries to eventually become the Lower Meghna, forming the great Gangetic Delta. At its widest po...
The fourth edition of Bangladesh International Tourism Fair 2014 is set to be held from June 19 to 21, at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka.
The event is organised by Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD) in collaboration with the Bangladesh Tourism Board. The Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh is the co-organiser of the Fair. More than 12 countries and 51 international buyers have confirmed their participation at the event, stated a release.
The Supreme Court of India during the hearing of two public interest litigations (PIL) on the gas pricing issue asked the government why Niko Resources is selling gas in Bangladesh at $2.34 per mmBtu while it wants a price of $8.4 per mmBtu in India. Ironically when the case was being argued in the Supreme Court, government owned ONGC has demanded a price of $13 per mmBtu for its gas.
While the product, natural gas remains the same, the three price points that we have only adds to the confusion. Why should ONGC ask for higher gas prices...
After producing biogas from animal wastes and of late electricity, Bangladesh has now embarked on a plan to generate power through effective management of human waste, making a significant milestone in sanitation in South Asia.
Development partners came up with financial support for the venture to supplement the government effort in managing people sludge and reuse it for producing biogas and electricity production.
A pilot project with the financial support of Taka 31 crore f...
A NEW empowerment fund to be launched in May will allow large companies in the tourism sector to boost their empowerment scores by investing in small businesses.
The fund is to be unveiled by the Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP), a public-private partnership and nongovernmental organisation focused on enterprise development in the tourism sector. TEP is looking to raise an average of R10m to R30m a year through the new funding tool.
The new fund will be based...
