The government on Thursday made an appeal to the people to keep at least one light switched off and to limit the use of air conditioners at their residences, offices and shops to get some respite from nagging power outages.

In order to provide power plants with required quantity of fuel, energy ministry has asked Petrobangla to stop gas supply to re-rolling mills, lime and dyeing industries for five hours from 6 pm everyday.

The two-day technical meeting of Bangladesh and Myanmar on the delimitation of maritime boundary ended inconclusive as the parties failed to narrow down their differences on a number of issue including the process of demarcation in the Bay of Bengal and unimpeded passage for Yangon in the Naf river.

A total of 12 IOCs had one-one interactions with them and all were found to be very keen to participate in the bidding process. The IOCs include BP Exploration of the UK, Conco Philips of the USA, CNOOC International of China, Luxon Global of Korea, Nippon Oil of  Japan, ONGC Videsh of India, Santos Limited of Australia, STAT Oil of Norway, Tullow and Perl Energy of Singapore.