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Maintenance work to shut off power supply

ET Report
Electricity supply in different parts of Dhaka city remained suspended from dawn-to-dusk on Friday and Saturday because of maintenance work of the transmission line. According to a Power Grid Company of Bangladesh statement, service work will be conducte ..more..

UK dividends to fall 6.5% in 2010 due to BP: study

ET Desk
Dividend payments by London-listed companies will fall 6.5 percent this year, mainly because BP suspended payouts after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Capita Registrars Dividend Monitor said. It followed a 13.4 percent drop in payouts last year in the wak ..more..

BP's oil well to stay shut despite tropical storm

ET Desk
Engineers have grown so confident in the leaky cap trapping oil inside BP's crippled well that they will leave it closed and unwatched if a tropical storm that formed Thursday forces them to flee, the government's spill chief said. Barring another setba ..more..

Airbus targets more than 400 orders

ET Desk
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said on Thursday it now hoped to win orders for more than 400 planes this year, reporting a solid performance at the Farnborough International Airshow. The event, now in its fourth day and scheduled to end on Sunday, ..more..

Senate Democrats abandon energy bill

ET Desk
Senate Democrats on Thursday gave up plans to attempt to pass an energy bill that caps greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, abandoning a priority of President Barack Obama. Obama had hoped to add a climate bill to the two biggest legislative succe ..more..