![]() ![]() She is staying in a flat owned by her family at Lalmatia’s National Housing. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said the power supply had normalised in some areas, but it could take until 8 pm to restore the connection to Dhaka and 9 pm to Chattogram.Īlong with a water supply crisis, the outage also hampered other aspects of daily life, such as cooking, bathing and moving up and down tall buildings in lifts.įarah Tanzim Titli, a teacher at Kushtia Islami University’s Department of Economics, is currently on vacation. The trouble started around 2 pm on Tuesday due to a 'technical glitch', Power Grid Company of Bangladesh or PGCB said. ![]() Power outages hit large swathes of Dhaka, Chattogram, Sylhet and Mymensingh divisions after a transmission line of the national grid tripped, according to officials. I may have to draw water from the reserves after returning home at night,” he said. “We get water from a deep tube well and store it in bottles. Shanto called her over the phone in the afternoon and asked her to gather some water to drink from nearby areas. But worries about the lack of water lingered in the back of her mind. But his wife was in for a rude awakening on Tuesday when she returned from their son’s school, only to find there was no power or water supply at home.ĭrained by the sweltering heat, she and her two children climbed up to their rooftop for some respite. Ratan Sikdar Shanto, a small business owner, lives with his wife and their children in the Abdullahpur dam area. ![]()
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