{"id":527619,"date":"2022-10-06T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T06:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527619"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T07:54:08","slug":"most-of-bangladesh-left-without-power-after-national-grid-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/most-of-bangladesh-left-without-power-after-national-grid-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of Bangladesh left without power after national grid failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity on Tuesday after a partial grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the country of 168 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s power grid malfunctioned at around 2 pm (0800 GMT) on Tuesday, leading to blackouts across 75-80 per cent of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Power Development Board official Shameem Hasan told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to restore the system,&#8221; Hasan said, adding that utilities were currently producing around 4,500 megawatts (MW)of power, compared to nationwide demand of 14,200 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity on Tuesday after a partial grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the country of 168 million people. The country&#8217;s power grid malfunctioned at around 2 pm (0800 GMT) on Tuesday, leading to blackouts across 75-80 per cent of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Power Development Board official Shameem Hasan told Reuters. &#8220;We are trying to restore the system,&#8221; Hasan said, adding that utilities were currently producing around 4,500 megawatts (MW)of power, compared to nationwide demand of 14,200 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}