{"id":627859,"date":"2022-10-04T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=627859"},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:28:10","slug":"power-grid-failure-in-bangladesh-leaves-130-million-people-without-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/627859\/","title":{"rendered":"Power grid failure in Bangladesh leaves 130 million people without electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bangladesh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"423\" \/>DHAKA\u00a0 &#8211; At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were without power on Tuesday afternoon after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government s power utility company said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 percent of the country was hit by the sudden outage shortly after 2 pm local time (0800 GMT), according to the Power Development Board.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from some locations in Bangladesh\u00a0s northwest, &#8220;the rest of the country is without power&#8221;, agency spokesman Shamim Ahsan told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Ahsan said 130 million people or more were without electricity and it remained unclear what had caused the fault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is still under investigation,&#8221; he said, adding that a technical malfunction was the likely reason.<\/p>\n<p>Junior technology minister Zunaid Palak said on Facebook that power would be restored by 8 pm in the capital Dhaka, itself home to more than 22 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh has suffered a major power crisis in recent months as a result of higher global energy prices following Russia\u00a0s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Public anger has intensified over lengthy blackouts in the South Asian nation, which is struggling to pay for enough imported diesel and gas to meet electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh last witnessed a major unscheduled blackout in November 2014, when around 70 percent of the country went without power for nearly 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>(AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA\u00a0 &#8211; At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were without power on Tuesday afternoon after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government s power utility company said. More than 80 percent of the country was hit by the sudden outage shortly after 2 pm local time (0800 GMT), according to the Power Development Board. Apart from some locations in Bangladesh\u00a0s northwest, &#8220;the rest of the country is without power&#8221;, agency spokesman Shamim Ahsan told AFP. Ahsan said 130 million people or more were without electricity and it remained&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":627860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}