The technical evaluation committee of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday recommended increasing the bulk electricity price by 58 percent.

Residents in Sylhet city have been enduring power outage following waterlogging caused by excessive rainfall since yesterday (May 17, 2022).

Gas supply has resumed in different areas in Dhaka city and adjoining areas from yesterday afternoon, said a Titas Gas announcement.

Gas supply to Rajshahi division will remain suspended for two days from the night of Eid day for expansion work.

Gas supply to different areas of Dhaka and Manikganj will be suspended for 48 hours from 10:00pm on May 3 while residents of some areas of the capital will experience low gas pressure, said Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested city dwellers to clean their household reservoirs regularly to prevent the spread of bacteria responsible for cholera and diarrhoea.

Increasing gas and power price will make things worse for people, while they are already faced with inflation and price hike, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) in an online press conference they organised yesterday.

Gas supply to all customers in Savar, Dhamrai and Manikganj will remain suspended for 48 hours – from 10pm on Eid day.

The yield of Kailash Tila, the main source for Sylhet Gas Fields Ltd, was on average 69 million cubic feet per day in 2016, but it dropped to 29 million cubic feet in January this year.

Police arrested two people in Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila yesterday night (April 7) while protesting load-shedding.

After four days of disruption, the Chevron-operated Bibiyana gas field resumed full production from this morning – which is likely to end the gas crisis in parts of Bangladesh.

The Bibiyana gas field may add 70 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMCFD) by tomorrow morning to further ease the nagging gas crisis in the capital.

Dhaka Wasa managing director said he gets foul-smelling tap water at home too but assured that it was harmless.

Managing Director of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) Taqsem A Khan today asked residents of the city to boil supplied water before drinking it.

For the second day in a row, many neighbourhoods in the capital suffered an acute gas crisis yesterday, as the authorities struggled to fix the technical problems that occurred at Bibiyana Gas Field in Sylhet on Sunday.

Protesting frequent load shedding, a group of angry locals, including students, besieged the Zonal Office of Mymensingh Palli Bidyut Samity-1 at Madhupur upazila in Tangail today.

Like yesterday, the first day of Ramadan, there is a possibility of limited gay supply in Dhaka and surrounding areas today.

Consumers will have to buy Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) at a higher price as Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has re-fixed the price of 12 KG LPG cylinder at Tk 1,439 from the existing Tk 1,391 with effect from 6 pm today.

The managing director (MD) of Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA), AKM Fazlullah, has withdrawn his proposal to increase his basic salary from Tk 1.80 lakh to Tk 4.50 lakh.

It takes Anwar Hossain, a 60-year-old cook at a mess in the capital’s Farmgate, about an hour to make a trip to the nearest deep tube-well, get 10 litres of water, and return home.