An agreement was signed today (September 1, 2022) between the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) and Chinese firm U&D to develop the country’s second waste-based power plant.

Like fertiliser, the government would consider giving subsidies to farmers for diesel, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

Russian state-owned oil supplier Zarubezhneft JSC has sent samples of its crude oil to Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC).

Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury today (August 31, 2022) said it would have been better to continue with the existing price of fuel instead of reducing it by Tk 5.

Thirty-five percent of all capacity payments the government made to independent power producers (IPPs) over the last three years went to two private companies and a joint venture.

The government’s decision to cut fuel prices by Tk 5 per litre would have little impact on the crisis that people are now facing, said economists and experts.

The first unit of the 1320MW coal-fired Maitree Super Power Plant at Rampal in Bangladesh has been synchronised with the country’s national electricity grid, ahead of its likely joint inauguration during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India in September.

In light of the ongoing global energy crisis, Dhaka is seeking a long-term partnership with Delhi to buy its surplus fuel, said said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen yesterday (August 29, 2022).

The government yesterday trimmed fuel prices by Tk 5 per litre in line with the 11.25 percentage point slash in the import duty of diesel by the National Board of Revenue.

Over 200 families at several villages under different upazilas of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram have been rendered homeless in the last one month due to sudden erosion by the Teesta and Dharla rivers.

The government has decided to cut fuel prices by Tk 5 per litre, which will be effective from 1:00 am tomorrow (August 30, 2022).

The government may adjust fuel prices, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said.

As India's capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.

The government is likely to bring down the diesel price following the cut in import duty on the key fuel by the National Board of Revenue, said an energy ministry official yesterday.

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe.”

Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shahab Uddin today (August 28) said Bangladesh requires USD 230 billion by 2030 to implement various activities to tackle climate change.

The High Court today (August 28, 2022) directed the government to stop -- for the next three months – the earth filling on around 2,500 bighas of agricultural land and waterbodies near Purbachal of Daudpur Union in Naryanganj's Rupganj.

The weather department has predicted showers across Bangladesh in 24 hours commencing 9am today (August 28, 2022).

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has claimed that the power supply situation has been better in the current month than that in the previous month.

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