Govt to import 1,000MW of renewable electricity from India

Bangladesh will import 1,000 MW of renewable electricity from India, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said Thursday. A memorandum of understanding has already been signed in this regard, the state minister told reporters at his office in the Secretariat this afternoon. Nasrul said he expects that electricity

DAE, BRAC Bank uplift lives of 1,230 farmers

In a pioneering move, the government's agriculture wing, in partnership with a private commercial bank, has introduced a novel method that allows farmers in Bangladesh to cultivate crops and vegetables in land that typically remained unutilized due to climate-induced elongated waterlogging. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), the largest public-sector agricultural