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Probe links government-corporate collusion to AL-era power deals

, Sept. 29 -- Top government officials, including former power and energy state minister Nasrul Hamid, reportedly colluded with several corporate entities in Bangladesh and India to secure controversi... Read More


Climate change behind world's worst dengue death rates in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Sept. 18 -- Bangladesh continued to log one of the world's worst case fatality rates during dengue outbreaks, apparently almost throughout the last two decades, underscoring the strain put on t... Read More


Train of rough weather events exposes Bangladesh's disaster vulnerability

, Aug. 31 -- In three and half months since the third week of May, rough weather events, including heavy rains, squalls and high tides, prompted Bangladesh Meteorological Department to issue a marine ... Read More


Bangladesh looks on as China, India move to have Brahmaputra in chokeholds

Dhaka, Aug. 22 -- Bangladesh looks on as its upstream neighbours China and India kept up their efforts to build dams to unilaterally control the water flow in the trans-boundary river Brahmaputra, the... Read More


Bangladesh's national rooftop solar programme of 3,000MW overly ambitious: IEEFA

Dhaka, Aug. 18 -- based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis in a briefing note released on Monday called Bangladesh government's target to install 3,000-MW solar capacity in public b... Read More


New, revived fossil fuel projects to heighten Bangladesh's economic woes

Dhaka, Aug. 16 -- Moves taken over the past year since the incumbent government assumed power to launch new fossil fuel projects or revive scrapped ones threaten to worsen Bangladesh's economic woes, ... Read More


Mounting stranded assets expose a new Achilles heel of BPDB

Dhaka, Aug. 15 -- Bangladesh's power sector stranded assets are increasing by leaps and bounds, exposing a new Achilles heel of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), which bled fiscally dry after... Read More


Arbitrary deals and policy shifts build mountains of unsold stones at MGMCL

Dhaka, Aug. 14 -- Arbitrary railway construction deals with India and policy shift by the Bangladesh Water Development Board left mountains of mined stones unsold at the state-owned Maddhapara Granite... Read More