(5 Oct 2022)
  
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Dhaka - 4 October 2022
1. Various of people dining in a restaurant by candlelight
HEADLINE: Power back in Bangladesh after blackout
2. Vehicle moving on a road through dark neighborhood
3. Various of barber cutting hair by the light of a cell phone torch
ANNOTATION: A failure in Bangladesh's national power grid plunged much of the country into a blackout.
4. Mid of people shopping with cell phone light at a marketplace while a shopkeeper talking with phone  
ANNOTATION: Dhaka residents were dining by candlelight and receiving haircuts by torchlight.
5. Various of people gathered inside and outside of a petrol pump with plastic jar for fuel
ANNOTATION: People gathered at fuel stations to collect diesel to run standby generators.
ANNOTATION: Officials said that power transmission failed somewhere in the eastern part of the country.
ANNOTATION: Power was restored nearly seven hours later but it was not immediately clear what caused the glitch.
  
STORYLINE:
  
Electricity supply across Bangladesh has been restored after the South Asian country plunged into a blackout following the failure of its national power grid, officials said.
The blackout, which impacted much of the country, started at 2:05 p.m. on Tuesday and lasted for nearly seven hours before power was completely restored at 9 p.m. It was not immediately clear what caused the glitch.
Many large shopping malls in the capital, Dhaka, closed early on Tuesday evening.
Elsewhere, people gathered at fuel stations to collect diesel to run standby generators and market vendors operated amid candlelight.
Officials at the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board earlier said power transmission had failed in the eastern part of the country.
All power plants tripped and electricity was cut in Dhaka and other big cities, said Shameem Hasan, a power department spokesman.
Bangladesh's recent impressive economic growth has been threatened by power shortages since the government suspended operations of all diesel-run power plants to reduce costs for imports as prices have soared. The diesel-run power plants produced about 6% of Bangladesh's power generation, so their shutdowns cut output by up to 1500 megawatts.
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