Tushar Kanti Das lives on the ground floor of a three-storey house on Sabuj Sangh Math Road of ward-6 in Khulna city. After a long day of work as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, he would have to suffer the woes of load shedding as soon as he returned home for the past week.
The authorities evacuated thousands of people from 13 coastal districts by Monday evening, according to officials, as cyclone Sitrang was approaching from the Bay of Bengal. The cyclone was expected to make landfall in Bangladesh early Tuesday with wind-speed gusting up to 93 kilometres per hour and flooding coastal areas with tidal surge, according to the meteorological