Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that ...

A monkey has been blamed for causing a nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka. The island nation's 22 million residents were mostly left without power during the outage, which began around 11am local ...

The High Court has issued a rule asking why Sammilito Sanatani Jagaran Jote spokesman Chinmoy Krishna Das should not be granted bail in a sedition case. The High Court bench of Justice Md Atoar ...

COLOMBO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will outline the government's revenue and policy goals in his first full-year budget on Monday, seeking to extend the ...

COLOMBO: An intruding monkey at a Sri Lankan electrical grid sub-station caused a general islandwide blackout on Sunday (Feb 9), government officials said. The power outage began around 11.30am ...

A nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a monkey that intruded into a power station south of Colombo. Power is gradually being restored across the island nation of 22 million people ...

The recent reports that Sri Lanka has decided to revoke a 20-year power purchase agreement with India’s Adani Group has prompted considerable debate, highlighting the challenges that the nation ...

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Sri Lanka is attempting to sustain economic growth while maintaining macroeconomic stability under the IMF program it began in 2016. The government's high debt payments and bloated civil service ...

Australia brushed aside any concern over Galle's fickle weather by steamrolling through Sri Lanka's listless batting order across two innings on day four to complete a near-flawless performance in ...

And so it shapes up again. Australia are coming off their big Border-Gavaskar Trophy win, of course. Through their 3-1 win in that series, they also booked their World Test Championship final spot.