Solar in a big way: Green jobs booming
Bangladesh is known for its apparel manufacturing industry—and for the conditions faced by garment workers toiling in Dickensian factories for a dollar a day. But according to a report released Sunday, the South Asian nation has become a top hot spot for renewable energy jobs, creating a green workforce as large as Spain’s in 2013.
How? Solar energy.
Bangladeshi’s are installing small photovoltaic systems at a rate of 80,000 a month, says the report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). In a country where only 47 percent of the population had access to electricity in 2009, according to the Asian Development Bank, solar is increasingly becoming a way to leapfrog the need to build a bigger power grid.
Sudan keen to import jute, jute goods from Bangladesh
Sudan expressed its interest to import jute, jute goods and pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh.
The non-resident Sudanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dr Hassan E El Talib, expressed this interest when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganobhaban residence here on Sunday evening.
He also requested the Prime Minister to encourage Bangladeshi investors to invest in his country in shipbreaking industry.
PM’s special assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil briefed reporters after the meeting, reports BSS.
Dr Talib co...
PM’s special assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil briefed reporters after the meeting, reports BSS.
Dr Talib co...
PM blames Mamata for Teesta treaty failure
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday blamed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for India and Bangladesh failing to sign the Teesta water sharing treaty.
Bangladesh and India were all set to ink a deal on the sharing of Teesta waters during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Dhaka visit in September 2011.
But the signing had to be cancelled following last-minute objections raised by the West Bengal chief minister, Hasina said.
The Indian prime minister had made positive remarks on the deal, she said.
Hasina c...
But the signing had to be cancelled following last-minute objections raised by the West Bengal chief minister, Hasina said.
The Indian prime minister had made positive remarks on the deal, she said.
Hasina c...
Job scope for 15,000 Bangladeshis in British curry industry
The 3.6 billion-pound British curry industry, mostly owned and run by Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, has a shortage of some 15,000 skilled chefs and managers, said a successful restaurateur, insisting the Bangladesh government on grabbing the opportunity, reports BSS.
A leader of the British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BBCCI) already dispatched a proposal to the British government requesting to pave the way for fulfilling the requirement of manpower shortage from Bangladesh.
“We’ve, of late, submitted a comprehensive proposal with requirement of around 15,000 jobs to the British Prime Minister . easing immigration rules got paramount importance in the proposal,” Enam Ali, MBE, a Bangladeshi living in Britain and director of BBCCI, told BSS here today.
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.
