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Nepal, Bangladesh agree to pursue India deal to start power trade from this wet season:

By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, May 17, 2023Nepal and Bangladesh have agreed to make efforts to start trading of power from the upcoming wet season (June-November) with the export of 40–50MW electricity from Nepal, according to a member of the Nepali delegation to the bilateral talks held in Patuakhali, Bangladesh. During the fifth meeting of the secretary-level Joint Steering Committee on energy cooperation between Nepal and Bangladesh on Tuesday, the two sides…

Buriganga’s old channel getting a new life

by Md Abbas in The Daily Star, Apr 25, 2023Only three years ago, the old Buriganga channel would serve as a playground for children as it would remain withered during the dry season. Even during rainy seasons, the water flow was insufficient allowing silt and waste to accumulate on the riverbed..But over the last year, with significant changes having been made, the channel is now recognisable as a branch of the Buriganga. The Dhaka South…

The season of swan songs

by Rashed Rahman in Business Recorder, Nov 20, 2022Outgoing COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa in an address to the Defence and Martyrs Ceremony at GHQ on November 23, 2022 made an unprecedented admission about the army’s unconstitutional interference in politics for 70 years, while criticising the political parties for their errors, which include being intolerant towards rivals. Most of the latter criticism was aimed at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) for crafting a “fake and false”…