Blackouts bedevil Bangladesh as South Asia forex worries mount

Echoing Sri Lanka and Pakistan, woes blamed on Ukraine war and falling reserves

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A woman fans a baby by candlelight during a recent blackout in Bangladesh. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu)

FAISAL MAHMUD, Contributing writer

DHAKA -- Bangladesh is sinking deeper into a power crisis that has alarming echoes of the electricity woes seen in its politically and economically troubled South Asian neighbors Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

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