Dhaka, April 24 -- The proposal to award the contract to a foreign firm for conducting multi-client seismic survey in the country's maritime areas has finally received the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.

At a meeting on Wednesday, it also gave go-ahead to a proposal of the Ministry of Science and Technology to get nuclear fuel supply from Russian TVEL Joint Stock Company under the state-to-state cooperation agreement between Bangladesh and Russia.

The Cabinet body, with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair, gave the approval in principle to the tender proposal of the TGS-SCHLUMBERGER JV for the "2D Non-Exclusive Multi-Client Seismic Survey", said Nasima Begum, additional secretary of the Cabinet Divisio...