Staff Reporter
Cyclone Sidr put the National Power Grid in complete disarray for over 18 hours beginning at 2:00am on Friday leaving the entire country without power.
The cyclone that ripped through the central part of Bangladesh’s coastline, uprooted trees, electric and telephone poles and towers, tore apart electric lines and led all the power generation units to shutdown, a Power Development Board (PDB) source told The New Nation. PDB engineers tried to put the generation units back into operation from the morning. [Read more]