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I’m convinced the election will be this year now.

So the army chief, General Grievous favours a before December election too.

He must have bought into GCM 👏

🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑👊👊👊👊👊

Do it!!!!

Bangladesh rare earth minerals find

In a surprising development, researchers in Bangladesh have discovered rare earth minerals in several regions of the country. According to local scientists, these valuable minerals have been found in river basin sands, coastal beach sands, elevated lands called “chars,” and even coal mines. While experts are still assessing the commercial potential of these findings, the discovery could open new doors for the country’s economy.

Https://www.india.com/news/world/bangladesh-hits-jackpot-yunus-country-may-get-super-rich-due-to-rare-earth-minerals-find-chars-bad-news-for-pakistan-because-commercial-mining-7761092/

That’s a proper ramp mankini 😉

In Bangladesh, it is the Election Commission (EC)—not the government or an interim government—that has the constitutional authority to announce and conduct national elections.

Here’s a breakdown:

• The Constitution of Bangladesh (Article 119) gives the Election Commission the exclusive power to:

• Prepare for elections,

• Declare the election schedule,

• Conduct the polls, and

• Ensure free and fair elections.

• The government—whether incumbent or interim—does not “call” elections. Its role is to facilitate the EC in holding elections, particularly by ensuring a neutral administrative environment.

• In practice, under the current constitutional framework (since the 15th Amendment in 2011), there is no mandatory “interim government”. Elections are held under the incumbent government, although there’s political debate over this. In the past, Bangladesh used a caretaker government system, but that has been abolished.

So in summary:

The Election Commission of Bangladesh can and does call elections. The country does not need to wait for an interim government.

Can the Election Commission of Bangladesh call an election or does the country have to wait for the interim government to call the elections?

Anyone else notice we are edging higher day by day 🥳🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Green army incoming…..

Yep. Held up well.

Let’s see if there’s interest into the close and rest of weeek.

What have I missed?

What’s new?

Nowt 🤫

We need General Grievous to warn Yunus to hurry the ….. up!

Let’s see if there’s some interest in us this morning. Might give the game away.

Https://www.observerbd.com/news/521106

Generation of Matarbari coal-fired plant drastically falls for shortage of coal

Published : Wednesday, 16 April, 2025 at 12:00 AM Count : 64

Nurul Amin

CHATTOGRAM, Apr 15: The generation of 1200 MW capacity Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project has drastically fell to 162 MW only due to shortage of coal, according to Coal Power Generation Company Limited (CPGCL) sources said.

Two units of the project can generate over 1200 MW power daily. But during the last few days, the generation has drastically been declined to 157 MW to 162 MW since the first week of April, CPGCL sources said.

"The situation will improve this week,' said Nazmul Huq, Managing Director of CPGCL.

He said, "a ship carrying 65,000 metric tons of coal will arrive at Matarbari this week.'

"So the generation of the plants will certain to increase," he said.

The plant needs a total of 35 lakh metric tonbs of coal annually. As a result, it needs nearly 3 lakh tons of coal monthly.

Meanwhile, a ship carrying 63,000 metric tons of coal arrived last month. But those coal was mud-mixed. So, Coal Power Generation Company Limited (CPGCL) rejected the shipment after detecting a significant presence of soil in the consignment meant for the Matarbari Power Plant in Cox's Bazar.

The Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Plant at Matarbari, built on 1,600 acres along the Bay of Bengal, has a capacity of 1,200MW. The first unit began commercial production in December 2022, followed by the second unit in August 2023.

According to CPGCL sources, the coal, supplied by an India-based company that won the tender to source the material from Indonesia, was found to be heavily mixed with soil, rendering it unusable for power generation.

coal was transported aboard the Singapore-flagged MV Orient Orchid, which entered the Matarbari Channel on 17 March. The ship was operated by Meghna Group of Companies.

The Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) has implemented two units Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project. CPGCBL, a state-owned enterprise of Bangladesh, developed the project at a cost of Taka 51,854.88 crore.

The generation capacity of each unit is 600 MW totalling 1200 MW by two units.

The 1,200MW power project, costing Tk 51,854 crore, was constructed in Matarbari and Dhalghata Unions of Cox's Bazar District.

The power plant had been built adjacent to the sea, which will not be affected by cyclone or tide, as a-14 meter above sea level embankment was constructed and the power plant is located inside the dam keeping in mind the highest tide in Bangladesh at a height of 10 meters.

It was reported in March 2014 that "Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh (CPGCB) will get $4.53 billion loan according to the agreement with Japanese donor agency Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the construction of coal-fired plant at Matarbari.

Pressure building 🙆‍♂️

12pm BD time tomorrow is 7am UK time.

Papers will be full of it from the off for us in the morning.

Had to look it up:

“ Bangladesh is set to graduate from the United Nations’ Least Developed Country (LDC) category on 24 November 2026, marking a significant milestone in its development journey. ”

Nice. So the EC will be ready for September.

Election called in October.

Election in December 😛

One day we’ll open 50p+ a share. 🥳🤑🤑🤑