Compressed natural gas stations in Bangladesh are struggling to fuel vehicles as a nationwide gas shortage sharply reduces pressure at pumps, leaving drivers in hourslong lines.
Households and drivers are facing severe gas shortages after a fire halted supplies from the Matarbari floating liquefied natural gas terminal.
Five people have been accused of embezzling money allocated for a research shed that was never built at the Madaripur Regional Pulse Research Center in Bangladesh, according to a report in Somoy TV.
Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir on Saturday rejected the allegations cited by the United States in imposing heavy tariffs on Bangladesh, calling them completely baseless.
Bangladesh has designated the semiconductor industry as a national priority sector and introduced tax breaks, startup funding and other incentives to expand the country’s role in the rapidly growing global market.
Border Guard Bangladesh and local residents stopped three alleged attempts by India’s Border Security Force to push 22 people across the border early Saturday, according to local media reports.
Tea workers at Kaliti Tea Garden in Bangladesh’s Moulvibazar district stopped work for an hour and staged a protest demanding a daily wage of Tk 500.
National Citizens Party convener Nahid Islam urged authorities Friday to prevent former president Mohammed Shahabuddin from leaving Bangladesh and called for his immediate arrest.
Ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh held a third round of talks Saturday with a Cockroach Janata Party delegation after education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned over examination irregularities.
Authorities arrested an Indian national at Dhaka’s international airport after finding 11.8 kilograms of cannabis concealed in his luggage, the Department of Narcotics Control said Saturday.
