The government must take timely steps to keep the power plants running and the power supply uninterrupted.

Japan today signed an agreement with the Bangladesh government to provide a $1.5 billion loans for Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-fired Power Project in Cox's Bazar.

A study by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has revealed that there has been corruption of Tk 390 crore in the purchase-acquisition-compensation of land in the construction of three power plants in Bangladesh.

The sea port being built for the Matarbari coal-fired power plant will be turned into a deep-sea port, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said.

A court in Cox's Bazar has sent former deputy commissioner and additional deputy commissioner of the district to jail in a case filed over misappropriating Tk 23 crore from Matarbari coal-based power plant project in Maheshkhali.