An international accord on recycling ships is set to begin within 24 months after Bangladesh and Liberia became the latest countries to ratify the accord, officials said on Monday

Amara Raja Infra Pvt Ltd (ARIPL), a part of the $1.75 billion Amara Raja Group, has secured a contract for installing a solar power plant worth $130 million in Bangladesh's Jamalpur

Rain may continue in Dhaka and other parts of the country over the next 72 hours starting from 9:00am today, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department's (BMD) forecast

Bangladesh now can import more electricity from the Adani power plant in India as the second unit of it started commercial operation

Canada's Montreal, Indonesia's Jakarta and India’s Delhi occupied the first three spots

Power Division has opened control rooms for its six distributions and one transmission entities to ensure smooth electricity supply across the country during the holy Eid-ul-Azha..In an office order, the Power Division published the names of the organisations and their responsible official

Payra Power Plant has resumed its operation from this morning after being closed for 20 days due to coal shortage

The country's maritime ports have been advised to hoist the local cautionary signal 3 as deep convection is taking place over the North Bay due to active monsoon, said the weather department today

With an air quality index (AQI) score of 95 at 8:57am, Dhaka ranked 12th  in the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality

The water level of all the rivers, including Brahmaputra and Dudhkumar, have receded in Kurigram point

A ship carrying 64,300 tonnes of coal for the Matarbari coal-fired power plant in Cox's Bazar's Maheshkhali arrived here from Indonesia today

At least 19 people are dead after floods triggered by South Asia's annual monsoon, with a week of relentless rains forcing thousands of people to seek shelter in India

A ship carrying 41,207 tonnes of coal reached Payra port from Indonesia early today.

Seeks investment in Mongla, Mirsarai SEZs from its largest

Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) in a meeting today approved a total of 34 proposals, including import of two cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from international spot market, 50,000 metric tonnes of rice bran oil, and 95,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser

Bangladesh will have to spend annually $10 billion to import primary fuel for the operation of the power plants, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) at the seminar today

Swiss embassy's Bangladesh Microinsurance Market Development Programme finds

The "election electricity," a term that dwellers of Sylhet city coined to describe the continuous supply of power ahead of the Sylhet city polls, went away this morning, a day after the election

People of Kurigram, Tangail and Jamalpur districts are the worst sufferers of the recent floods.

Over 30,000 people in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat find themselves marooned as the ongoing flood continues to submerge low-lying areas of this region.