The consumption has been 11 times the discovery of natural gas in 15 years, according to data available with the state-run Petrobangla. Since 1999, state-run and foreign companies have discovered three fields —Bangura and Srikail in Comilla and Sundulpur in Noakhali — with 750 billion cubic feet of recoverable gas. But in the 15 years, 8,140 billion cubic feet of […]

Leaders and activists who joined the Dhaka-Sundarban long march on Friday said that the government would take a step to bring about its fall if it laid the foundation stone of the Rampal power plant. The five-day march will end today with the announcement of the Sundarban declaration after holding a rally at Digraj in Bagherhat. The national committee to […]

Bangladesh on Friday started drawing power from the Indian grid on a trial basis through a 103-kilometre high-voltage transmission line between Baharampur in Pashchim Banga and Bheramara in Kushtia, officials said. Power Grid Company of Bangladesh is coordinating the transmission from India to Bangladesh. ‘The Indian side started feeding power into the grid at 10:45am. We are checking the flow […]

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s investigation has found involvement of former state minister for foreign affairs Abul Hasan Chowdhury and Bangladeshi origin Canadian citizen Zulfiquar Ali Bhuiyan in the Padma Bridge corruption conspiracy, its officials have said. The ACC probe found the corruption link after both Abul Hasan and Zulfiquar Ali had been charged with corruption in Canada by the Royal Canadian […]

The acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that the party would definitely go for general elections if a level playing field was ensured. He said this in response to comments ruling party leaders made that the BNP would finally join the next general elections. Fakhrul at a discussion at the Purbani Hotel in the evening […]

Chairmen of the most of the parliamentary standing committees announced that they would hold no more meetings while some committee chiefs hinted that they would not hold any meeting after mid-October. Heads of some subcommittees have also finalised their pending committee reports for submission to the standing committees in about two weeks, according to committee chiefs. There are confusions in […]

India’s Supreme Court recognised Friday the right of voters to reject all candidates contesting polls, seen as a key reform ahead of general elections due next year. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam asked the election commission to change electronic voting machine ballots to give voters a choice of ‘none of the above’. ‘Democracy is all […]

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Friday urged the international community to lend their support to the trial of the perpetrators of genocide, rape, arson and crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s War of Liberation in 1971. ‘The trial is required for the sake of justice, human rights and the rule of law. Successful completion of the trial would heal the […]

Acute gas shortage has struck most of the CNG filling stations causing serious inconvenience to those using CNG fuelled vehicles as they face long queues at the filling stations. The shortage of gas is also affecting passengers as the long queues of vehicles waiting to receive CNG create terrible traffic jams. The sufferings have intensified as the CNG filling stations […]

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has called on the fashion world to stand up in solidarity with apparel workers across the world. He put out the call as he addressed the third annual First Ladies Luncheon organised by Fashion for Development, a global organisation in the private sector that celebrates sustainable economic growth through fashion industries around the world, in New […]