Dhaka Thursday, Jun 25, 2026
- PM urges global leaders to turn climate pledges into action
- No Plan to Provide New Gas Connections to Household Sector
- All Quick Rental Power Plants Retired: Power Minister
- It Will Take Time to Break Free from the Cycle of Corruption in the Power Sector: Information Minister
- Electricity Prices Increased for All Consumers
- Approval Given to Purchase Three LNG Cargoes
- Diesel, Kerosene Prices Cut By 50p For November
- AI Boom To Fuel Natural Gas Demand In Coming Years, Report Says
- Bangladesh signs €477m deals with EU and EIB for renewable energy and more
- The Current Oil Price Rally Is Reaching Its Limits
EB Reports
The project for upgradation of Mongla Port, being taken up under the third Indian Line of Credit (LoC), would greatly boost the revenue generation and improve the sub-regional connectivity, trade and commerce and accelerate growth of the entire region. With the development of the Khulna-Mongla Port rail project, the development of this port will add to the maritime links for movement of goods not only between India and Bangladesh but... »
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is going to India tomorrow on a four-day state visit, with trade cooperation, including securing fuel oils and essential commodities, high on the agenda this time amid a volatile global market following the Russia-Ukraine war. During the summit meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries, Bangladesh and India are likely to reach agreements on the supply of commodities like rice, wheat and onions to... »
The remittance inflow sustained its upward trajectory into August as Bangladeshi expatriates sent out $2.03 billion in the second month of the fiscal year with a 12.58 percent year-on-year rise. In July, the country received $2.09 billion from expatriates, which was the highest in 14 months, while the daily average remittances received was $67.6 million. Last month, the daily inflow was $65.7 million through the banking channel, according to the... »
Diplomats, business leaders and journalists have expressed high optimism that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming India visit will yield very positive outcome and usher in a new era of bilateral and regional cooperation in the wake of present global geo-political developments. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on September 5 on a three-day official visit at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Prime Minister... »
Bangladesh is finalising deals with Vietnam and India to import a total of 330,000 tonnes of rice as it races to replenish reserves and cool domestic prices, two officials with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday. Soaring prices of the staple grain for the country’s 165 million people pose a problem for the government, which plans to expand cut-price rice sales to help people hard-hit by high costs.... »
“India has been very keen to develop synchronised grid connectivity. It will also allow seamless power from Bhutan and Nepal,” Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami on Monday (29 August) said that his country is interested in developing a grid link for power supply with Bangladesh, adding that it will allow seamless power from Bhutan and Nepal. “India has... »
The Asian University for Women (AUW) Math & Science Summer School 2022 concluded with a Closing Ceremony held at the Asian University for Women campus in Chittagong recently. In 2019, Chevron Bangladesh launched a pioneering partnership with the Asian University for Women (AUW) and it has been resumed again in 2022 after two years of Covid pandemic. Overcoming the challenges of the pandemic, The Asian University for Women (AUW) resumed... »
The World Bank’s outgoing country director Mercy Miyang Tembon on Wednesday highly appreciated Bangladesh’s overall socioeconomic development, including women empowerment under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB. Tembon said this during her farewell call on the prime minister at her official residence Ganabhaban. Prime Minister’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the reporters after the meeting. The WB official said that she visited several places across Bangladesh and... »
The High Court has issued a rule asking the government why its circular raising fuel oil prices shall not be declared illegal. The panel of Justice Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Ejarul Haque Akondo issued the rule on Tuesday upon hearing a writ petition. The secretary and the deputy secretary at the Energy and Mineral Resources Division, the chairman of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, the cabinet secretary, the law and... »
The government will re-adjust the domestic oil prices if their price in the international market continues to fall, state minister for the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) Nasrul Hamid said Sunday. Hamid has urged all to be patient for a couple of months and termed the current energy and gas crisis as temporary. “Please be patient for the next one to two months,” he said adding, “The... »