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New era | Calls for the abolition of rental power plants are getting louder


New era | Calls for the abolition of rental power plants are getting louder

The recent Awami League government extended the life of expensive rental power plants to three times the recommended efficient operating life and paid them around Taka 33,000 crore between 2009 and 2023. Rented power plants, owned by private companies, were originally introduced as an emergency measure to deal with a […]

New Age | Londoners try to find ideal flatmates as rents rise


New Age | Londoners try to find ideal flatmates as rents rise

A flyer lies on a table during the “Girlies Club,” a networking event that brings people looking for flatmates in London together in the style of a speed dating event, recently at a west London bar. “I’m a software engineer,” says Josephine Wright, cocktail in hand, as she introduces herself to another […]

New Age | FSRU repair delay prolongs acute gas crisis


New Age | FSRU repair delay prolongs acute gas crisis

Bangladesh has failed to restart one of its two floating storage and regasification plants, which was damaged by Cyclone Remal about two and a half months ago. Authorities cited bad weather and poor visibility as reasons for resuming FSRU operations and were forced to send back six cargoes of LNG […]