<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">According to officials at Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), National power transmission grid failed at 2:05 pm, causing&nbsp;</span>Outage<span style="font-size: 1rem;">&nbsp;across Bangladesh, except some parts of the north. The transmission line tripped somewhere in the eastern part of the country, especially districts on the east of Jamuna river.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Only a few districts in the Rangpur division were out of the power failure, said a top official of PGCB.</div><div><br></div><div>Following the grid failure, all power plants tripped one after another and electricity supply went off in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Barisal, and Mymensingh divisions, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>BPDB director (Public Relation) Shameem Hasan informed that engineers of both BPDB and PGCB were trying their best to restore electricity transmission.</div><div><br></div><div>Until 2:45 pm, power supply were restored at a good number of areas in that division.</div><div><br></div><div>PGCB officials said they could not identify the exact reason and location of the fault that triggered the grid failure.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, The last incident of grid failure happened in 32 districts on May 2, 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>