Power supply resumes in parts of capital, Ctg following major outage

Power supply resumed in parts of the capital, Narayanganj and Chattogram on Tuesday afternoon about two hours after these areas suffered a major outage owing to a suspected technical glitch.

Power supply resumed in parts of the affected areas at 2:30pm after going offline across large areas at 12:45pm, said officials at the Power Grid Bangladesh PLC (PGCB).

All the grid supply lines and sub-stations returned to normal operations at 2:30pm and the supply would be fully restored gradually, the officials said.

PGCB said authorities shut off multiple power centres after noticing a technical glitch in the system. The officials could not confirm the nature of or cause behind the glitch.

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Large parts of the Dhaka division’s eastern zone including Bhulta, Haripur, and Siddhirganj areas in Narayanganj and Rampura, Ulan, Gulshan, Moghbazar, Banasree, Khilgaon and Motijheel in the capital city suffered outages starting 12:45pm.

The Bangladesh Bank, Secretariat and International Crimes Tribunal-2 also suffered outages, prompting the tribunal to suspend judicial proceedings for the day.

Many areas of Chattogram suffered similar outages.

Power supply was uninterrupted in other parts of the country, PGCB officials told reporters