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Finally, Chevron opts to stay

Finally, Chevron opts to stay
Chevron Global Ventures Ltd, the US-based oil giant, has officially informed the Bangladesh government that it has decided to terminate its sale agreement with Himalaya Energy Co. Ltd. and would continue its operations in Bangladesh, putting forward a seven-point charter of demands that it says would allow a smoother operation. In a letter signed by Steve Wilson, Chevron Bangladesh president, and dated 25 October 2017, the company stated: “We hereby inform Petrobangla that Chevron Global Ventures Ltd will not proceed with the planned share sale of the Chevron Bangladesh Companies to Himalaya Energy Co. Ltd.” To remain in Bangladesh, however, Chevron has stipulated some conditions related to the investment to continue the production…

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11 jailed for 20yrs
11 jailed for 20yrs
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced 11 persons to 20 years of imprisonment each, in connection with a…

‘Hidden cost of Bangladesh's humane response to the Rohingya crisis’

‘Hidden cost of Bangladesh's humane response to the Rohingya crisis’

Burning firewood desperately by the Rohingya people of Ukhia, Teknaf and Naikhangchhari will destroy the ecosystem of the Cox's Bazar deeply, reports UNB from Cox’s Bazar, reports UNB. The local residents and environmentalists' leaders expressed deep concern in this desperate deforestation…
DMCH emergency services 
suspended for three hours

DMCH emergency services suspended for three hours

Emergency medical services at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have been suspended for three hours after the death of a patient named Nawsad. Relatives of patient attacked the doctors and nurses of DMCH. After this incident the doctors of the emergency department have stopped the treatment.…
Falling gas production

Falling gas production

Once more, the country faces a sudden gas crisis, as three gas fields were shut down due to technical glitches resulting in production to come down from 2750 mmcf (million cubic feet) to 2690 mmcf. Of these three gas fields, Rupganj was shut down only six months after it started production. Moreover,…
Cryptocurrencies: The frontier in payment system

Cryptocurrencies: The frontier in payment system

Nowadays, we can complete our transaction across the country in a seamless and faster manner by way of various popular mobile payment systems. As we know that the broad money (money available in the economy) is a function of money in circulation and velocity of transaction. With this speed in transaction…
Corrupt banks under finance ministry panel scanner

Corrupt banks under finance ministry panel scanner

The Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Finance Ministry yesterday strongly condemned the irregularities of the NRB Commercial Bank and Farmers Bank and asked Bangladesh Bank (BB) to take necessary action within two months. The parliamentary body also asked the four foreign financial units to provide…
‘3m face starvation’

‘3m face starvation’

London: The head of the UN food agency has appealed for aid to avert a humanitarian crisis in the conflict-wracked DR Congo province of Kasai, reports BBC. David Beasley told the BBC that more than three million people were now at risk of starvation. He warned that hundreds of thousands of children…
Dhaka International Folk Fest Nov 9-11

Dhaka International Folk Fest Nov 9-11

Like the previous years, Dhaka International Folk Fest will be a gathering of myriad of Bangladeshi and International folk artistes on a single platform this year also. The curtain will rise on the third edition of the biggest folk music festival of the subcontinent on November 9.    The festival…
Dynamites aim to play team game

Dynamites aim to play team game

With the available local players, Dhaka Dynamites- the defending champions of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) held their first practice session ahead of the BPL-5 campaign at the BCB-National Cricket Academy (NCA) Ground yesterday. Barring captain and its icon player Shakib Al Hasan, all the local…
Potato price fall hits farmers

Potato price fall hits farmers

Hundreds of potato growers and traders of Lalmonirhat are facing difficulties as prices of potato have fallen sharply. The farmers can neither bring back their potato from the cold storage, nor can they sell it in the market, as lifting charges (cold storage rent) are higher than the selling price.…
‘Around 1.5 lakh shelters needed’

‘Around 1.5 lakh shelters needed’

The government will move the Rohingya refugess to Bhasanchar if the current crisis lingers. “Since 1978, around 10 lakh Rohingyas have been living in Bangladesh. The international community should put pressure on the Myanmar authorities to bring back these forcibly displaced citizens from Bangladesh,”…
Consumers appear loath to spend. Is it a blip, or Brexit beginning to bite?

Consumers appear loath to spend. Is it a blip, or Brexit beginning to bite?

Usually dire retail predictions turn around by Christmas, but this year things feel different, with real incomes falling, prices up and borrowing high Economists tend to be sniffy about the CBI’s distributive trades survey – the one that this week reported the “steepest drop”…
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