India supplies high-speed diesel to Bangladesh
The Dollar Business Bureau Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and said India was ready to continue supplying HSD (high-speed diesel) to Bangladesh in a sustainable manner. Pradhan said India will supply 2200 MT HSD from Siliguri Marketing Terminal of Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL) to Parbatipur Depot of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation in Bangladesh. The decision to supply HSD was taken on the first day of Pradhan’s 3 day visit to Bangladesh, from April 17-19. “He shared the details of Indian hydrocarbon infrastructure project proposals in Bangladesh including setting up of LPG import terminal at Chittagong by IOCL and sought favourable consideration for creating a win-win situation for both sides. Pradhan also discussed the ‘Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline’ and called ...
India gives 100 MW power supply to Bangladesh, gets 10 GBPS internet
The Dollar Business Bureau Bangladesh has sought additional 100 MW from Tripura power project Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the 100 MW power supply from the ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) in Tripura to Bangladesh. India earlier supplied 500 MW power to Dhaka through West Bengal, but with the commencement of additional 100 MW, the total is likely to escalate up to 600 MW. However, Bangladesh has sought another 100 MW from the Tripura power project. Bangladesh, in turn, will supply 10 GBPS internet bandwidth to India from Thursday onwards. The high-speed internet bandwidth will ensure fast and reliable internet connectivity in Tripura as well as other North Eastern states. The two ...
India-Bangladesh: Towards greater economic cooperation
Prof. A.K. Sen Gupta | The Dollar Business The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi giving his statement to media at the Joint Press Briefing with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Ms. Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 06, 2015. (Source: PIB, Government of India) A new Chapter was opened in Indo-Bangladesh relations when the Prime Ministers of both nations met very recently in Dhaka to resolve many of the outstanding issues standing in the way of greater economic cooperation between the Asian neighbours. Although such dialogues between the two nations had been carried on earlier, it was only after the personal visit of Prime Minister Modi, that concrete solutions seem to have emerged. Going by press reports, the visit has ...
