Power returned to most of Bangladesh on Sunday, a day after a nationwide outage hit the South Asian country due to a technical glitch on the transmission line bringing electricity from India, officials said, according to dpa. 'We have no shortage of electricity right now. The entire power network is operative,' State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid told reporters. Some local problems might still cause blackouts in a few neighbourhoods, he said, noting that the country's power plants were producing 4,900 megawatts of electricity. As homes across the country were plunged into the dark, airports, hospitals and other emergency services resorted to diesel-run generators to keep their operations going after the national grid failed around noon Saturday. Bangladesh began importing electricity from neighbouring India last year to meet its soaring domestic demand for power. The director of the Power Grid Corporation of India said the failure originated in Bangladesh. The government has launched an investigation into the outage.
