Despite Tokyo’s commitment to help phase out fossil fuels, Bangladesh is currently building the Matarbari coal plant: a power complex set to be completed by 2024 thanks to low-interest loans from the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute and the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) have signed a contract for renovating 3 MW BAEC TRIGA Research Reactor (BTRR), as Bangladesh and Korea step up efforts for the development of peaceful nuclear energy.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said that the coal-based power plant projects undertaken by Bangladesh -- including Rampal Power Plant -- have almost zero carbon emission.

Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) plans to install 2,000 solar irrigation pumps under a project -- allowing farmers to sell their unconsumed electricity to the national grid.

The first consignment of nearly 3,800 tonnes of coal -- for Rampal Thermal Power Plant in Bangladesh -- has left India.

By enhancing interconnection capacity of Bangladesh-India existing power grid, the government has taken an

Sushasoner Jonno Nagarik expresses concern over holding a free and fair municipal election with the increasing number violence.

A one-member probe body led by Barguna Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Mohitul Haque Anam Chowdhury yesterday visited Chandantala

The Election Commission will decide in a day or two whether it will deploy army during the upcoming city corporation elections in Dhaka and Chittagong, says Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad.