Using modern technology in irrigation is not new in Bangladesh. Farmers use deep tubewells to pump water from the earth to supply to their fields. But due to huge shortage of electricity, farmers face trouble to supply power to their machines. Image by: Liton Rahman, Drik News On 30th of December 2009 The Sheikh...
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Society changes at a rapid pace, we constantly surrender to the automation of neo-gadgets. This has been a ceaseless reality since the Industrial Revolution. But Dhaka society is different. The rate of change is more rapid; social inequity speed-rides on the wheels of corruption; values of truth and goodness are as outdated as our...
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Photo: Tarique Rahman taken to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court on March 8. He has arrested of extortion, a charge brought by a construction contractor. Court gave Gulshan police four days to quiz Tarique after police sought five days to probe the allegation of extorting. Dhaka, Bangladesh. March 9 2007.by: Liton Rahman, DrikNEWS. I...
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A Bangladeshi newspapers edited by former energy Advisor to Prime Minster (Khaleda Zia) has published an allegation of financial scam of US$ 5 million against the current Energy Advisor to Prime minister Hasina Wazed. Quoting a letter of an unidentified person named Abu Siddique claiming to represent Petrobangla officials alleged that Chevron, an IOC...
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Courtesy: S M Tanvir. One Bangladesh newspaper now being spearheaded by Engr Mahmudur Rahman, the ex Energy Advisor to PM Khaleda Zia and now a columnist recently carried out a report on alleged corruption in the deal with IOC Chevron regarding installation of a Gas Pipeline Compressor Station on GTCL operated national Gas Grid....
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A team of energy think tank of Bangladesh goes abroad on a hyped series of Road Shows at London, New York and Singapore to woo investors to boost the ailing energy sector of Bangladesh. A country which could succeed a total generation capacity of about 4000MW after 38 years of independence and dream to...
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The universe is again in balance. The deep disturbance in the cosmic force we felt has diminished, and we hear the birds signing. The dark cloud of decency and lawfulness that was threatening to envelope Bangladesh has been lifted! It was causing us major consternation when the prime minister directed the deputy commissioners to...
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People seem to be happy with the assurance of the key persons of Bangladesh energy sector management to the Bangladesh media that there will be no energy crisis in the country by 2012. Natural gas production will be doubled in two years. But the reality is in November 2009 Bangladesh is suffering from the...
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Students for a Free Tibet, Bangladesh (SFTBD), the Bangladesh chapter of the Students for a Free Tibet organization, in partnership with Drik Bangladesh, has organized a photography exhibition on Tibet named “Into Exile | Tibet 1949-2009” at Drik Gallery in Dhaka which was scheduled to start today and run for a week. Drik Bangladesh...
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