Overview
- Authorities also asked foreign‑curriculum schools and private coaching centres to suspend operations to reduce electricity use.
- Officials said shutting campuses will cut consumption and ease traffic congestion, which lowers fuel waste.
- Daily limits on fuel sales remain in place after panic buying and stockpiling across the country.
- Four of five state‑run fertiliser factories are halted as gas is redirected to power plants to avert wider outages.
- Bangladesh is buying additional LNG on the spot market at sharply higher prices to bridge shortfalls, with about 95% of its energy imported.