Bangladesh

Professor Dr. Anwarul Karim: This year Bangladesh celebrates the Golden Jubilee of Independence as the country enters into the 51st year of independence. Today, Bangladesh has made her position felt by others as a strong nation as she is now a part of a developing nation and has the guts…

Impact of Ukraine war Golam Mostafa Jibon: Country’s budget formulation discipline may breach tremendously due to continuous rising of expenses especially costs of living in impact of Ukraine war.MK Muzeri, a former chief economist at Bangladesh Bank and executive director of the Institute for Inclusive Finance and Development said, “The…

Gas price hike Staff Correspondent: The Technical Evaluation Committee of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has recommended increasing the price of natural gas in the residential sector by Tk 105 per two stoves. Now residential customers have to pay Tk 975 per month for two stoves.In the case of…

Titas ranks at the top of stealing and wasting Golam Mostafa Jibon : Stealing and wasting of gas are increasing day by day due to lack of effective measures by the Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) causing huge losses every year.If gas theft and waste could be stopped, Tk 3,000…

Proposed gas price hike UNB: State-run Petrobangla’s proposal to hike retail gas price faced stiff opposition from groups representing consumers, citizens, businesses and professionals at a public hearing that began at the city’s BIAM auditorium yesterday. Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) is holding the hearing responding to the proposals of…

Staff Correspondent: A public hearing on the proposed gas tariff hike at the retail level began o yesterday.Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) is holding the hearing at the BIAM Auditorium in the city on March 21-24 to listen to the arguments from the stakeholders in the gas sector. Distribution companies…

Patuakhali Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated the 1320 MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant at Patuakhali’s Payra on a day when she also declared the country’s 100 per cent electricity coverage. This milestone achievement puts Bangladesh ahead of India and Pakistan among the South Asian nations to light up…

Industry Desk: The World Bank highlighted that Bangladesh has $200 billion potential for climate and green investments.Recently, Policy Research Institute (PRI) in collaboration with the World Bank Group organized a webinar titled ‘Incentives for Green Finance and Investment’ at the policy dialogue platform of Green growth for Bangladesh.Where speakers highlighted…

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh’s economy faced 6.17% of inflation in February which is the highest in the last 17 months, The inflation rate is sharply 31 basis points higher than January inflation, according to a report of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) published yesterday.The BBS released its February issue of…

Staff Correspondent: The government is going to undertake a Tk 2,555.25 crore big project to enhance the capacity of the urban local government bodies in their recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic alongside strengthening their preparedness in facing such situation in the future.The Local Government Division under the Ministry of LGRD…