BPC’s red balance skyrockets Incurs Tk 72.08b loss in fiscal 2010-11 M Azizur Rahman The aggregate loss of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) skyrocketed to Tk 72.08 billion in the last fiscal year (FY) 2010-11, up by 251 per cent over the previous fiscal’s Tk 20.49 billion. The purchase of a substantially higher quantity of petroleum [...]

Donors can fund CCS for coal-fired power plants: UK envoy Britain’s climate change envoy has said energy-starved Bangladesh could lobby donor partners to finance coal-fired power stations that are part of the first wave of “carbon capture and storage” (CCS), a means of mitigating the effect of fossil fuel emissions on global warming, reports UNB. [...]

Motivating students in learning process M Ashraf Al Haq Very recently I joined the University Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). I am back in Bangladesh after 26 years living in different continents – learning, understanding experiencing and engaging in different forms of experiential learning and enjoying enormously. At the moment I am teaching three courses, but [...]

Search for hydrocarbon moves at a snail’s pace Shahiduzzaman Khan Bangladesh’s hydrocarbon reserve is depleting fast. It is likely to face acute energy crisis after 2015 if no new reserve is found immediately. The situation has gone to such an extent that all concerned appear to have accepted the likely devastating effect of the gas [...]

    between the lines Branding educational institutions in Bangladesh Mamun Rashid I was quite intrigued, when a niece of mine studying at Dhaka University’s prestigious business school, IBA (Institute of Business Administration) told me the other day that she expected the business school of North South University to over take IBA within next two [...]

    How to confront the energy crisis?   Khondkar Abdus Saleque Flawed planning, wrong strategy and poor management of infrastructure projects in the energy sector are driving the Bangladesh economy to a possible serious depression. The present government which claimed to have done extensive homework on the energy sector prior to its election in [...]