{"id":244248,"date":"2023-12-10T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=244248"},"modified":"2023-12-10T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:26:05","slug":"nationwide-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/nationwide-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka is experiencing a countrywide power outage due to a system failure, a government official said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the country&#8217;s power monopoly, is working to restore power, CEB spokesperson Noel Priyantha said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lankans faced 10-hour power cuts amid a deepening economic crisis that roiled markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then, the electricity regulator urged more than a million government employees to work from home to save fuel as Sri Lanka was unable to pay for fuel shipments because of a foreign exchange shortage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Power cuts were also extended to 13 hours as the country faced its worst economic crisis in decades when foreign exchange reserves fell by 70%. Sri Lanka had then even struggled to import essentials, including food and fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is experiencing a countrywide power outage due to a system failure, a government official said on Saturday. Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the country&#8217;s power monopoly, is working to restore power, CEB spokesperson Noel Priyantha said. Sri Lankans faced 10-hour power cuts amid a deepening economic crisis that roiled markets. Then, the electricity regulator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[112996,112995,19919],"class_list":["post-244248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-ceylon-electricity-board","tag-nationwide-power-outage","tag-sri-lanka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/nation-power.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244250,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244248\/revisions\/244250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}