Industry data shows a sharp increase in monthly sales of e-bikes just as the fuel crisis started

Bangladesh yesterday requested India to increase supplies of diesel and fertiliser, citing global supply chain disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East, according to a foreign ministry statement.

The long queues at filling stations across the country do not seem to be abating, with the lines getting longer in some places, even though the fuel stock became slightly healthier compared with last week’s.

Iqbal Hassan Mahmood says decision to depend on monthly review as Middle East tensions push global costs up

Move aims to curb excess fuel collection; government reports changes in supply

The Hatirjheel water taxi service in the capital is facing the risk of a complete shutdown as the ongoing fuel crisis begins to hit the alternative transport system, operators said.

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Authorities said further updates and decisions will be communicated regularly through their website.

The country stands on the edge of a difficult summer as global tremors from the war on Iran ripple through its energy lifelines, stoking fears of blackouts as heat waves loom.

Ministers grapple with fuel crisis, measles, backlash over reforms

Jan-E-Alam, 50, joined a long queue of vehicles around 1:30am yesterday near Mohakhali Railgate to get fuel from Trust Filling Station near Bijoy Sarani, about 2km away.

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Prolonged disruption could expose structural vulnerabilities

Like the rest of the world, Bangladesh is currently grappling with the geopolitics-led energy supply disruption, described by the International Energy Agency (IEA) as the biggest ever threat to energy security.

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Bangladesh’s sole state-owned refinery is operating on critically low crude reserves, raising the prospect of a temporary halt in operations within days, even as shipments await movement through disrupted regional supply lines.

The mobile app–based system will initially apply to motorcycles, allowing registered vehicles to purchase limited fuel within a set time

The government has decided to keep domestic fuel prices unchanged this month by absorbing rising import costs through heavy subsidies.

Lighter vessels are facing fuel shortages that are slowing and disrupting their regular operations to unload cargo from mother ships at Chattogram port’s outer anchorage.

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