Dhaka Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026
- No Plan to Provide New Gas Connections to Household Sector
- All Quick Rental Power Plants Retired: Power Minister
- Fuel Oil Sales: BPC Incurring Daily Loss of Tk 780 Million
- 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 Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved a Taka 6,140.19 crore project for ensuring necessary land acquisition and utility transfer for upgrading the Bhanga-Jashore-Benapole Highway into four-lane. The approval came from the last meeting of the ECNEC in the current tenure of the government held with its Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Planning Minister MA Mannan said... » 
The much-anticipated rapid transport service in the form of overhead electric railway service popularly known as metro-rail has started operating from Uttara to Motijheel via Agargaon, bringing relief in city life amid the nightmare transport system in the capital as the dwellers will be able to enjoy an advanced, fast and safe transport from now on. Following the inauguration of the Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) Line-6’s Agargaon-Motijheel section by Prime... »
RANGPUR, Oct 31, 2023 (BSS) – Implementation of the ‘Expansion of irrigation in greater Rangpur district through best uses of surface water and conservation of rainwater (EIR)’ project has started contributing to enhancing food production in the region. Officials said re-excavation of 125-kilometre portions of five extinct canals and rivers has already freed 20,615 hectares of land from water-logging after four decades turning those cultivable benefiting 1.26-lakh people, including 25,000... »
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the world leaders to come up with utmost sincerity to ensure a dignified life and prosperous future for all. “As equal members of the global family, we must, therefore, resolve to do our utmost for dignified life and prosperous future for all,” she said while addressing the “One Family” session in G20 Summit held at Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre at Pragati Maidan here.... »
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi today during a bilateral meeting expressed their satisfaction over the existing deep relationship between the countries and simultaneously agreed to take effective steps to strengthen the relationship further. “Both the prime ministers expressed satisfaction over the existing deep relationship between Bangladesh and India and agreed to take effective steps to strengthen further this relationship,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen... »
PM for stopping Russia-Ukraine war peacefully through negotiations DHAKA, Sept 8, 2023 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for finding a way to stop the Russia-Ukraine war through negotiations and a peaceful manner. She made the call when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov paid a courtesy call on her at the latter’s official Ganabhaban residence here this morning prior to her departure for New Delhi, India to attend... »
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid on Saturday said that the next two years will be critical for the energy sector of the country. “In next two years, we have to be leapfrog in ending all our plans and there will be huge challenges,” he said while addressing a seminar titled, “Highest Utilisation of Natural Resources of Bangladesh: Philosophy of Bangabandhu” at Federation Bhaban in the city. Federation... »
The government started a disbursement of $320 million per week to pay outstanding power bills and ensure power and energy supply. The disbursement is happening each four days in a week. It means that the government will pay around $1,280 million per month for power and energy in a bid to keep the economy running. “We are receiving $80 million per day for power and energy as the Prime Minister... »
Executive Senior Vice-President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Yamada Junichi today paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban office here this evening. During the meeting, the Prime Minister requested the JICA official to explore the opportunity of producing drinking water from the wastage water that comes from seawater following salt production by the local people at the project area in... »
SANGSAD BHABAN, June 26, 2023 (BSS) – The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on Monday passed the Tk 7,61,785 crore national budget for the Fiscal Year 2023-24 with an immediate effect from July 1. The theme of the budget is “Towards Smart Bangladesh Sustaining the Development Achievements of a Decade and a Half” aiming to build ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041 as envisioned by the incumbent Prime Minister amid adverse impact of... »