The country started daily two-hour power cuts last month after the Ukraine war drove up energy prices.
Bangladesh will close schools for one more day each week and reduce office hours to ease an electricity shortage, a government official says.Protesters have taken to the streets in recent weeks after the government raised petrol prices by more than 50%.
Under normal circumstances, schools in Bangladesh are open for six days a week - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. He added that the government would continue to provide power to villages, including in the early hours of the morning when crops are irrigated.The country generates most of its electricity from natural gas, some of which it imports.
In July, Bangladesh became the third South Asian nation to seek a loan from the International Monetary Fund , after Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
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