Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that over 13,000-MW electricity will be added to national grid by 2016. Sheikh Hasina told the House on September 5 in response to a question from indep... Read more
Rural Electrification Board (REB) has taken a mega project of Tk 54.13 billion to bring 1.8 million more rural people under electricity coverage by 2015 under a rural electrification expansi... Read more
Standard Chartered Bank will give $21 million to Midland Power Company Ltd for a 51-megawatt gas-fired power plant at Ashuganj of Narayanganj. An agreement was signed between the two sides r... Read more
Failing to manage required investments, the Power Division is now faced with serious problems in implementing its 13,000 megawatt power project, in the next three years. The state-owned powe... Read more
President Barack Obama has condemned the killing of the US ambassador to Libya after an armed mob stormed the American consulate in Benghazi. Chris Stevens, 52, and three other American offi... Read more
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of Bangladesh won the Earth Care Award 2012 (sponsored by the Times of India) for spearheading the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) (LDCF)... Read more
All is set at the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) to increase power tariff by 21 to 26 percent, from today. The BERC is also working to restructure the tariff slabs for domest... Read more
A Chinese consortium has been facing delay in starting work on a gas exploration project in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), sources at the Petrobangla said. Earlier in 2010, the consortium... Read more
Today the Government of Bangladesh (BIWTA) has abundant the rescue operation of drowned oil tanker MK Merechan in the Meghna Estuary! Globally if a lone liter of oil (hydrocarbon) is release... Read more
Neil Armstrong, born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, was an American astronaut. He died on August 26, 2012, at the age of 82. Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturda... Read more
