Gas-fired power plants on rise despite gas shortage
Gas production is on the decline while the number of gas-fired power plants is increasing with combined cycle power plants (highly efficient power plants- CCPPs) sitting ...Details
Power generation from costly heavy fuel pushing up prices
Independent power producers (IPP) import heavy fuel oil (furnace) used in their fuel oil-fired power plants resulting in an annual additional expenditure of Tk7, 200 crore ...Details
Task force formed to retrieve laundered funds
A task force was set up 9 years ago to retrieve laundered funds from abroad consisting of 10 members. Recently Finance Ministry has formed another task force of 14 members ...Details
Solar system expansion slow
The expansion of the country’s solar power system is moving at a slow pace as equipment costs have escalated by around 25 percent recently.
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2,600 trafficked women, children still untraced
Naima Akhter, who worked at a garment factory in Dhaka's Ashulia, was trafficked to Andhra Pradesh in India by a gang with a promise for a well-paying job.
Even ...Details
