‘I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh

The country has been left in the dark as it endures power cuts caused by the Iran war and reliance on gas imports At 1am, Halder’s alarm goes off and the 34-year-old Bangladeshi bank employee rises and heads to her kitchen. She is up at this time not for work but to cook for her family. An energy crisis paralysing the capital, Dhaka, a city of almost 40 million people , means this has become the only time when the piped gas supply is strong enough to allow cooking. The city now operates in darkness, as people try to continue their lives with power even in public areas shut off early in the evening to preserve energy.

What is happening The Guardian reports: The country has been left in the dark as it endures power cuts caused by the Iran war and reliance on gas imports At 1am, Halder’s alarm goes off and the 34-year-old Bangladeshi bank employee rises and heads to her kitchen. She is up at this time not for work but to cook for her family. An energy crisis paralysing the capital, Dhaka, a city of almost 40 million people , means this has become the only time when the piped gas supply is strong enough to allow cooking. The city now operates in darkness, as people try to continue their lives with power even in public areas shut off early in the evening to preserve energy. The problem The public problem in this report is the one named by the source: “‘I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh”. A response on MLAIEL should not add a cause, a number, or a remedy the source does not state. Open the source for the detail. What a team can do on MLAIEL A team can follow the food or farming problem the source names — hunger, a failed harvest, or access to food — and open a project that does not add a cause or a remedy the source left out. Source The Guardian — ‘I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/i-spend-a-bagful-of-money-and-dont-fill-a-bag-the-energy-crisis-hits-bangladesh