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Dhaka, BangladeshE12 StatesE11E10E9

Blackouts, unrest, mural defacement

Power outages in Dhaka have stretched to 18 hours daily, pushing residents to seek solar alternatives, per The Cool Down.

Unrest in Bangladesh's garment sector has escalated, with fears of widespread chaos, SCMP reports.

A mural of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was defaced in Dhaka, sparking controversy, Times of India notes.

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What people searched for —

attention, not importance

People were searching for this story in 1 of the 54 countries E14 follows on Google Trends. Rank = its place among the searches that trended in that country within four hours of it.

#11 search in India (of 151) · 1K+ · “bangladesh” · Google Trends →

Sources —

5 articles
01scmpscmp.com · 7 Nov‘There could be anarchy’: Bangladesh’s garment sector unrest threatens disaster 02thecooldownthecooldown.com · 8 NovBlackouts stretch to 18 hours a day in Bangladesh, driving a rush for solar panels 03timesofindiatimesofindia.indiatimes.com · 7 Nov'No place for Tagore, glorifying India': Mural of Nobel laureate defaced in Bangladesh 04rediffrediff.com · 7 NovRabindranath Tagore's mural defaced in Bangladesh 05yahooyahoo.com · 8 NovBlackouts stretch to 18 hours a day in Bangladesh, driving a rush for solar panels

Open data on the globe —

check it yourself
Solar power plants
182 within 650 km · Coal 32 GW · Gas 11 GW · Hydro 8.6 GW · Oil 2.6 GW
Largest: TALCHER STPS · 3.0 GW coal
WRI Global Power Plant Database · Open the same data on datasets.wri.org →

Why these floors —

E12 · E11 · E10 · E9

E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E12, states; the pressure it names: power outages. Its words also reach E11 organizations, E10 institutions and E9 cultures.

Here it is a dynamic between states, organizations and institutions: unrest, garment sector and widespread chaos (E12 states), with Power outages and solar alternatives (E11 organizations), and 18 hours daily (E10 institutions).

E0 fieldsE7 ecosystemsE14 global
E12 Statesmain floor

The floor of states and force. In this briefing: unrest, garment sector, widespread chaos.

E11 Organizations

The floor of companies and infrastructure. In this briefing: Power outages, solar alternatives.

E10 Institutions

The floor of money and rules. In this briefing: 18 hours daily.

E9 Cultures

The floor of culture and meaning. In this briefing: mural of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.