Bangladesh power cuts deepen as government struggles to pay bills

Outages during heat wave weighing on rural areas and garment factories The past two weeks have seen daily intentional power cuts in Bangladesh of between about 600 megawatts and 3,350 MW — a much higher upper level than earlier this year. © Reuters DHAKA — Late central government payments to power producers in Bangladesh are combining with technical issues to cause major power outages in the South Asian country amid a period of extreme heat driven by climate change.

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