Power Division will form a Public Limited Company(PLC) which will work to establish four coal based power plants having capacity of producing 5,00MW of electricity each by 2014 through Public Private Partnership (PPP).

"For this, the Power Development Board (PDB) has already formed a committee to prepare draft for this company," a senior official of the Power Division said.

At least 232 H1N1 positive cases have been detected in the last two weeks, taking the tally of people infected with swine flu in Bangladesh to 604.

In a regular new briefing on swine flu on Sunday, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Mahmudur Rahman said none of the newly infected people died.

The government is set to develop four satellite towns surrounding the capital to ease the housing crisis and pressure on utilities on the capital.

The four towns, each equipped with one 100,000 accommodation facility, will be implemented under public-private partnership initiative, state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan said in an exclusive interview with bdnews24.com.

New estimation of gas reserved in Bibiyana field is now 6.6 trillion cubic feet (CFT) which is more than 2TCF higher than earlier estimate, sources in Petrobangla said.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni has said Bangladesh is a victim of the climate change though the country is not responsible for it.

She said this while presenting the country's position at an event on 'Innovative Solutions Linking Climate Change and Food Security' organised by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in New York on Thursday.

Bangladesh will seek developed country's support for capacity building of its people to tackle the adverse effects of climate change caused by global warming.

Bangladesh will seek developed country's support for capacity building of its people to tackle the adverse effects of climate change caused by global warming.

Large-scale farming of flash-flood tolerant varieties of Aman crop can produce an additional six million tonnes paddy annually to make the country completely self-reliant in food production and a rice exporting nation.

Over his 45 years, Siddique Ur-Rahman, a Bangladeshi rice farmer, has watched as his world has been gradually swallowed by water.

State Minister for Science and ICT Yafez Osman has said the proposed nuclear plant in northwestern Ruppur is expected to produce initially at least 600-mw electricity as the country reached an initial understanding with Russia for technological assistance for the ambitious project.