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Privatising power distributors may raise consumer costs

  Privatising electricity distribution companies could increase consumers’ power costs by around 20 per cent, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh

Bangladesh launches online application for on-arrival and transit visas

  Foreign travellers can now apply online for Bangladesh’s on-arrival and transit visas, with the new service fully operational from

Excelerate LNG Cargo to arrive Sunday, no major improvement in gas supply expected

  A new liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo for Excelerate Energy’s floating LNG terminal is expected to arrive on Sunday,

22 years since August 21 Grenade Attack

  Today, August 21, marks the 22nd anniversary of the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka.  

Germany logged 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer

Ge Germany registered around 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer as Europe struggled through a series of punishing heatwaves, worse than

China replaces traffic police with robocops

  It is not quite the “RoboCop” of the ​1987 movie: no gun, no power to arrest and wheels rather