{"id":485512,"date":"2022-04-20T11:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485512"},"modified":"2022-04-20T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:17:26","slug":"crisis-hit-sri-lanka-india-revive-talks-to-link-electric-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crisis-hit-sri-lanka-india-revive-talks-to-link-electric-grids\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis-hit Sri Lanka, India revive talks to link electric grids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks on linking their electricity grids, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, a step that could aid New Delhi\u2019s goal of reducing China\u2019s influence on the island nation, now grappling with a severe economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate prospect that power cuts brought by the crisis could be eased by the talks, which are a preliminary effort on a multi-year project both sides have explored before.<\/p>\n<p>India has extended assistance running into billions of dollars to its southern neighbour to fight the crisis, brought on by a steep drop in foreign exchange reserves that stalled imports of essentials such as fuel, so disrupting power supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks on linking their electricity grids, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, a step that could aid New Delhi\u2019s goal of reducing China\u2019s influence on the island nation, now grappling with a severe economic crisis. There was no immediate prospect that power cuts brought by the crisis could be eased by the talks, which are a preliminary effort on a multi-year project both sides have explored before. India has extended assistance running into billions of dollars to its southern neighbour to fight the crisis, brought on by a steep drop in foreign exchange reserves that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485512","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}