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  Chinese govt  urged to withdraw all involvement from Banshkhali coal power project

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on June 23, 2021

  One hundred and twenty-nine individuals and 74 organisations from 21 countries, including Bangladesh, on Tuesday called on the Chinese government to withdraw financial and technical...

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  Covid-19: power, wealth and justice

  Rajan Menon | Updated at 12:00am on June 23, 2021

  FIFTEEN months ago, the SARS-CoV-2 virus unleashed Covid-19. Since then, it’s killed more than 3.8 million people worldwide (and possibly many more). Finally, a return...

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  Power sector priorities get less focus in budget: experts

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:41pm on June 20, 2021

  Experts on Sunday said that efficiency enhancement, strengthening of transmission and distribution systems and investment in renewable energy should be the top three priorities for...

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  Iraq expects to build 8 nuclear power reactors by 2030

  Agence France-Presse . Baghdad, Iraq | Updated at 10:22pm on June 15, 2021

  Iraq, which suffers chronic electricity shortages, wants to construct eight nuclear power reactors by 2030 in order to reduce its external energy dependence, an official...

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  Govt to increase reliance on import for power, energy

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:56pm on June 03, 2021

  Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday allocated Tk 27,484 crore for the Power Division and the Energy and Mineral Resources Division in the proposed...

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  Medical oxygen scarce in Bangladesh amid high Covid deaths

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:26am on April 22, 2021

  Bangladesh’s demand for medical oxygen far exceeded its production about a month ago with import meeting a part of the additional demand as hospitals are...

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  Power of the youth in digital era

  Joy Qiao | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2021

  IN A mixture of plain rationality and vivid optimism, former US president Franklin D Roosevelt once said, ‘We cannot always build the future for our...

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  Telecom, power sectors ready to face 4th industrial revolution: ministers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:21am on February 28, 2021

  Post and telecommunication minister Mustafa Jabbar at a seminar on Saturday said that the telecom sector in the country was ready to face the fourth...

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  Millions struggle without power

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:44pm on February 17, 2021

  Millions were left without power as a winter storm gripped the southern and central United States Tuesday with record-low temperatures in ill-prepared areas, and a...

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  STL inaugurates power transformer plant

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:27am on February 07, 2021

  Sylvan Technologies Limited, a sister concern of PRAN-RFL Group, has started manufacturing power transformers in its factory at Habiganj Industrial Park at Olipur in Sayestaganj...