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Adani to withdraw from Sri Lanka wind power projects, open for future dealsAdani Green Energy announced its decision to withdraw from two planned wind power projects in Sri Lanka. The decision was made after the Sr...- Power outage grows from tip of a tail?A monkey caused a nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka by coming into contact with a grid transformer, leading to power cuts that disrupted med...
- How a monkey plunged all of Sri Lanka into darknessA monkey caused a major power outage across Sri Lanka by interfering with a grid transformer. The blackout affected many areas and engineer...
- Sri Lanka says talks on with Adani Group to lower wind power purchase costSri Lanka is negotiating with India's Adani Group to lower power costs from two wind projects in the northern province, aiming to cut price...
- Sri Lanka must reverse 'drift towards militarisation': UNThe South Asian island nation has suffered acute food and fuel shortages, lengthy blackouts and spiralling inflation this year after runnin...
- Sri Lanka faces 'great danger' as crisis dragsThe 73-year-old, who was propelled to power last month after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to flee the country and resign a...
- How Sri Lanka spiralled into crisisAnti-government protesters angry over power blackouts, shortages of basic goods and rising prices have long demanded that Rajapaksa steps d...
- Bankrupt Sri Lanka opens oil market to foreign firmsThe South Asian island country is suffering an unprecedented economic crisis because it cannot afford to import essentials, including enoug...
- Sri Lanka power union announces strike, raising risk of blackoutsSri Lanka's deepest economic crisis since independence in 1948 has upended lives of many of its 22 million people, with long queues for fue...
- Sri Lanka port switches to pedal power after fuel shortagesThe bicycle initiative was aimed at conserving petrol in the Colombo deep-sea container port, Sri Lanka Ports Authority chairman Prasantha ...
- Sri Lanka seeks USD 500-million loan from India for fuel purchases amid forex crisisSri Lanka has been mulling different options to facilitate measures to prevent fuel pumps from going dry, as the country faces a severe for...
- Crisis-hit Sri Lanka lifts state of emergencyThe state of emergency gave the police and the security forces sweeping power to arbitrarily arrest and detain people. The president's deci...
- Sri Lanka to repay debts after six months: governorCentral Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said there will be no debt servicing until the country was able to restructure its ...
- How Sri Lanka spiralled into crisisAnalysts say that economic mismanagement by successive governments weakened Sri Lanka's public finances, leaving national expenditure in ex...
- Sri Lanka exchange halts again after 13% plungeThe island nation is grappling with its worst economic downturn since independence in 1948, with months of regular blackouts and acute shor...
- Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa trims Cabinet of relativesPresident Gotabaya Rajapaksa has presided over the island nation's most painful downturn in memory and his government is preparing for immi...
- Sri Lanka announces default on all of its $51 billion external debtSri Lanka's finance ministry said in a statement that creditors, including foreign governments, were free to capitalise any interest paymen...
- Sri Lanka protesters defy curfew after social media shutdownPresident Gotabaya Rajapaksa imposed a state of emergency on Friday, the day after a crowd attempted to storm his home in the capital Colom...
- Tight security in Sri Lanka's capital as shops open after state of emergency orderAngered by shortages of fuel and other essential items, hundreds of protesters on Thursday clashed with police and the military outside Raj...
- Sri Lanka deploys army to guard power plants fearing sabotageSirisena has ordered the army to protect all installations linked to the national power grid, Power and Energy Ministry Ranjith Siyambalapi...
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