Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP)
Rooppur payment: Govt to seek US sanction waiver
As much as $900 million has been on hold since 2022 in the central bank's escrow account
20 April 2025
No more cost and time overruns
Govt must quickly complete Rooppur and other important projects
9 March 2025
$800m repayment to Russia in limbo
About $809 million has piled up in a Bangladesh Bank escrow account to repay loans and interest for the Russia-funded Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
5 October 2024
Our rising foreign debt and financial worries
The growth of debt exceeding the growth of GDP is a clear sign of vulnerability, the consequences of which are already present.
28 November 2023
Bangladesh's economy will be overhauled once mega projects completed: PM
In dispelling the confusion being spread about the mega projects being implemented in the country Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reaffirmed that her government remains cautious so the loans don’t become a burden.
13 April 2022
13 held in Rooppur housing project scam case
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrests 13 people for their alleged involvement in a corruption case in the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) housing project in Pabna.
12 December 2019