Dhaka:
Bangladesh's state power company says the country has been hit with an electricity blackout after a transmission line bringing power from neighboring India failed.
Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. Managing Director Masum-Al-Beruni says that the blackout hit around noon Saturday and covered all parts of the country connected to the national grid.
Bangladesh began importing electricity from India last October 2013 through a 400-kilovolt transmission line that runs from Baharampur in the Indian state of West Bengal to the southwestern Bangladesh town of Bheramara.