{"id":480839,"date":"2022-04-01T08:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T02:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=480839"},"modified":"2022-04-01T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T03:26:44","slug":"sri-lanka-to-turn-off-street-lights-as-minister-says-power-cuts-to-extend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-to-turn-off-street-lights-as-minister-says-power-cuts-to-extend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to turn off street lights as minister says power cuts to extend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is turning off its street lights to save electricity, a minister said on Thursday, as its worst economic crisis in decades brought more power cuts and gloom to its main stock market, triggering a halt in trade as prices slid.<\/p>\n<p>The island nation of 22 million people is struggling with rolling power cuts for up to 13 hours a day as the government is unable to make payments for fuel imports because of a lack of foreign exchange.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have already instructed officials to shut off street lights around the country to help conserve power,&#8221; Power Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is turning off its street lights to save electricity, a minister said on Thursday, as its worst economic crisis in decades brought more power cuts and gloom to its main stock market, triggering a halt in trade as prices slid. The island nation of 22 million people is struggling with rolling power cuts for up to 13 hours a day as the government is unable to make payments for fuel imports because of a lack of foreign exchange. &#8220;We have already instructed officials to shut off street lights around the country to help conserve power,&#8221; Power Minister Pavithra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}