Bangladesh Electricity

Cash-strapped Bangladesh shut its biggest power plant Monday because it was unable to afford the coal to fuel it, as a sweltering heatwave creates surging electricity demand.

At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were without power on Tuesday afternoon after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government's power utility company said.

The company plans to invest Rs. 100 crore in the electric vehicle manufacturing unit in Bangladesh for domestic and export markets.

Cyclone Amphan, one of the worst storms over the Bay of Bengal in years, pounded Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday, destroying thousands of houses, damaging buildings, uprooting trees, electricity poles and killing at 10 to 12 people in Bengal. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the impact of Amphan was worse than the coronavirus pandemic and claimed...

Mahindra Electric will be soon end the production of its fully-electric hatchback, the Mahindra e2o Plus. A company spokesperson told us that the main reason for phasing out the model is because the car doesn't meet the new safety norms that will come into play later this year in October 2019. Furthermore, Mahindra Electric is already working on a ...

India, along with Pakistan and Bangladesh, could face unsurvivable temperatures and deadly heatwaves within the next eight decades, warns a study by the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The areas likely to be hardest hit by the year 2100 are north India, Bangladesh and southern Pakistan, home to nearly 1.5 billion people...

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power has won an in-principle approval of the Bangladesh government for the first phase of the 3,000 megawatt LNG-based power plant.

State-owned power producer NTPC has been forced to shut 1,600 MW electricity generating units following dip in Farakka canal water level due to diversion of water to Bangladesh but insisted there will be no shortage of power in West Bengal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India and Bangladesh have set an example of how neighbouring countries can build a relationship with each other.

State-run NTPC will consider selling electricity to Bangladesh from its upcoming 750 MW plant at Kokrajhar in Assam once the neighbouring country finalises plans to buy power from the Palatana project in Tripura.

Two leading Indian power firms will build several plants in Bangladesh to produce up to 4,600 megawatts of electricity to ease the country's prolonged power crisis, a senior official said on Saturday.

A nationwide power blackout hit Bangladesh today when a transmission line supplying electricity from India broke down.

Bangladesh's state power company says the country has been hit with an electricity blackout after a transmission line bringing power from neighboring India failed.

Weeks after an electricity bill from Thane's Nallasopara slum colony brought a 'Chota Pakistan' to light, a birth certificate issued to a resident from Gandhinagar locality in Mira-Bhayander, has revealed a settlement called 'Bangladesh Zopadpatti'.

State-run NTPC today said it has inked a pact with Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB) to provide operation and maintenance services (O&M) for a power plant in the neighbouring nation.

Cash-strapped Bangladesh shut its biggest power plant Monday because it was unable to afford the coal to fuel it, as a sweltering heatwave creates surging electricity demand.

At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were without power on Tuesday afternoon after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government's power utility company said.

The company plans to invest Rs. 100 crore in the electric vehicle manufacturing unit in Bangladesh for domestic and export markets.

Cyclone Amphan, one of the worst storms over the Bay of Bengal in years, pounded Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday, destroying thousands of houses, damaging buildings, uprooting trees, electricity poles and killing at 10 to 12 people in Bengal. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the impact of Amphan was worse than the coronavirus pandemic and claimed...

Mahindra Electric will be soon end the production of its fully-electric hatchback, the Mahindra e2o Plus. A company spokesperson told us that the main reason for phasing out the model is because the car doesn't meet the new safety norms that will come into play later this year in October 2019. Furthermore, Mahindra Electric is already working on a ...

India, along with Pakistan and Bangladesh, could face unsurvivable temperatures and deadly heatwaves within the next eight decades, warns a study by the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The areas likely to be hardest hit by the year 2100 are north India, Bangladesh and southern Pakistan, home to nearly 1.5 billion people...

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power has won an in-principle approval of the Bangladesh government for the first phase of the 3,000 megawatt LNG-based power plant.

State-owned power producer NTPC has been forced to shut 1,600 MW electricity generating units following dip in Farakka canal water level due to diversion of water to Bangladesh but insisted there will be no shortage of power in West Bengal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India and Bangladesh have set an example of how neighbouring countries can build a relationship with each other.

State-run NTPC will consider selling electricity to Bangladesh from its upcoming 750 MW plant at Kokrajhar in Assam once the neighbouring country finalises plans to buy power from the Palatana project in Tripura.

Two leading Indian power firms will build several plants in Bangladesh to produce up to 4,600 megawatts of electricity to ease the country's prolonged power crisis, a senior official said on Saturday.

A nationwide power blackout hit Bangladesh today when a transmission line supplying electricity from India broke down.

Bangladesh's state power company says the country has been hit with an electricity blackout after a transmission line bringing power from neighboring India failed.

Weeks after an electricity bill from Thane's Nallasopara slum colony brought a 'Chota Pakistan' to light, a birth certificate issued to a resident from Gandhinagar locality in Mira-Bhayander, has revealed a settlement called 'Bangladesh Zopadpatti'.

State-run NTPC today said it has inked a pact with Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB) to provide operation and maintenance services (O&M) for a power plant in the neighbouring nation.