Bangladesh is reportedly looking to renegotiate much lower prices for electricity it purchases from the Adani Group as it tries to reduce its expenditure for subsidising the expensive electricity for the public. This is unless a Bangladesh court completely cancels the 25-year deal signed in 2017 with Adani Power for getting coal-fired power from a $2 billion plant in eastern …
Risking bullets, they stepped out of their homes to save their livelihoods. I managed to escape unharmed by pedalling my rickshaw as fast as possible to save my life.” Yet, the rickshaw pullers didn’t just escape — they saved lives as Bangladesh descended into the bloodiest clashes it has seen in years. “What good is fear if we die of …
The minimum wage for a tea plantation worker in the country is 120 taka a day, which is about $1.25 at official rates, but only just over a dollar on the free market Dhaka: Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike Saturday to demand a 150 percent rise to their dollar-a-day wages, which researchers …