Cabinet okays plan to set up first waste-based power plant

The government yesterday gave its nod to a proposal to set up the country's first ever waste-based power plant. The state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board now has permission to establish the plant in Jalkuri under Narayanganj district. At a meeting chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, the cabinet committee on purchase permitted BPDB to sign an agreement with a