{"id":1411856,"date":"2022-03-31T03:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411856"},"modified":"2022-03-31T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:00:06","slug":"power-cuts-in-sri-lanka-could-continue-into-may-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/power-cuts-in-sri-lanka-could-continue-into-may-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Power cuts in Sri Lanka could continue into May \u2013 minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpower-cuts-in-sri-lanka-could-continue-into-may-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-31T070550Z_1_LYNXNPEI2U0B6_RTROPTP_0_SRI-LANKA-CRISIS_1.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka suffers long power cuts as currency shortage makes fuel scarce\" \/><br \/>A woman works inside a shop attached to her house during the power cut in Colombo, Sri Lanka  March 30, 2022. REUTERS\/Dinuka Liyanawatte<\/div>\n<p>March 31, 2022<\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO (Reuters) \u2013     Sri Lanka\u2019s power minister said on Thursday that power cuts could continue into May, as many parts of the crisis-hit country currently faced up to 13 hours without electricity due to a shortage of foreign currency to import fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Pavithra Wanniarachchi said that a diesel shipment under a $500 million credit line from India is expected to arrive on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce that arrives we will be able to reduce load shedding hours but until we receive rains, probably sometime in May, power cuts will have to continue. There is nothing else we can do,\u201d Wanniarachchi said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting Uditha Jayasinghe;  Writing by Devjyot Ghoshal; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman works inside a shop attached to her house during the power cut in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 30, 2022. 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