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  Duty benefit extended for fire safety tools import

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 09:28pm on March 13, 2018

  National Board of Revenue has extended duty benefit along with relaxing conditions for export-oriented readymade garment industries in import of fire safety equipment...

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  Like LPG, govt leaves auto-gas pricing to private players

  Manjurul Ahsan | Updated at 12:21am on March 11, 2018

  Like Liquefied Petroleum Gas used in cooking, the government has also left the pricing issue of autogas, LPG used in vehicles, to the private players...

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  PDB receives bids for 300MW power import from India

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on February 15, 2018

  State-run Power Development Board has received bids from four Indian companies to import 300 megawatts power for 15 years...

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  Putin, Saudi king ready to expand oil market coordination

  Reuters | Updated at 08:58pm on February 14, 2018

  Russian president Vladimir Putin and Saudi king Salman ‘expressed readiness to expand fruitful coordination on world hydrocarbon markets’ in a phone conversation they had on...

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  Government announces gas discovery in Bhola

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on January 16, 2018

  The cabinet on Monday was informed of the discovery of a gas field with 600 billion cubic feet reserve in Bhola, said cabinet secretary Mohammad...

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  Energy div limps with dev projects

  Manjurul Ahsan | Updated at 11:17pm on January 02, 2018

  Energy Division is limping with its development projects under different funding schemes as it made 7.42 per cent progress in the project implementation in the...

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  PM to launch concrete construction work of Rooppur NPP Thursday

  United News of Bangladesh | Updated at 07:16pm on November 28, 2017

  Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is set to inaugurate the main concrete construction works of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project at the project site in...

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  Power prices up again

  Manjurul Ahsan | Updated at 12:05am on November 24, 2017

  The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday once again increased the prices of electricity by 5.3 per cent on an average at consumer level with...

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  Retail power price goes up by 5.3pc from Dec 1

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on November 24, 2017

  The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday will deliver its order on power price hike proposals of generation and distribution...

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  Tawfiq urges regional ties to tap seasonal diversity

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on November 20, 2017

  Prime minister’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Sunday urged neighbouring countries to extend cooperation in electricity exchange using seasonal diversities that increase demand for power...