Meeting challenges of sustainable power generation

Dwindling domestic gas supply. Ensuring primary fuel supply to achieve the targeted electricity generation mix as envisaged under the Power Supply Master Plan (PSMP) 2016 and the Perspective Plan will be the most important challenge in the face of dwindling domestic gas supply. The growing shortage of natural gas for...

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Depleting net foreign investment in stocks

Overall foreign investment in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) is equivalent to about 4.0 per cent of the total market capitalisation of about $46 billion whereas the same in case of stocks in India is over 20 per cent. The size of foreign portfolio investment does have a big psychological...

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The dilemma over Islamic banking

Islamic banking industry is a small portion of the entire conventional finance industry, which is currently growing exponentially at a rate of 15 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters Islamic Finance Database. In fact, Islamic banking is a model where depositors are supposed to invest their money in a partnership...

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