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Most of Bangladesh out of electricity due to grid failure

"Due to problems in a transmission line the power supply has been disrupted. All teams concerned are working to repair it," Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power, told journalists in Dhaka. He assured to solve the problem within "shortest possible time."

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The country's economic growth has been threatened by power shortages as daily blackouts are compounding the woes of the main textile industry, which earns most of the country's foreign currency. Bangladesh is the world's second-largest garment exporter after China.