Extract coal immediately for saving people in Northern region

 

Shamsul Haque
The speakers at a discussion meeting held at National Press Club on Wednesday urged upon the government to extract coal immediately for saving the interest of the people especially the locals of the northern districts who are deprived of equal development in all spheres of their life.
Eminent economist, Dr. Atiur Rahman said the northern [...]

Increased power tariff effective from Oct 1

ET Report
Power Division approved the Bangladesh Power Development Board’s (PDB’s) proposal to increase power tariff at bulk level that was fixed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on September 29. According to the new electricity tariff, the power distribution agencies would have to pay Tk 2.4150 for 132 KV level against the present Tk 2.1132 [...]

Committee approves import of petroleum from Malaysia

Committee approves import of petroleum from Malaysia

 

R Akter
The council of advisers’ committee on economic affairs on Monday authorised the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation to sign an agreement with a Malaysian state-owned company for petroleum import, putting aside the compulsion of state-to-state agreements. The committee on Monday also approved proposals for selling out three state-owned enterprises [...]

Natural Gas to Gasoline

 

ET Reprot
A Texas company says that it has developed a cheaper and cleaner way to convert natural gas into gasoline and other liquid fuels, making it economical to tap natural-gas reserves that in the past have been too small or remote to develop.
The company behind the technology, Dallas-based Synfuels International, says that the process uses [...]