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Holy clickbait. The title implies that Sri Lanka is totally out of power like Haiti, but that's far from the truth.

>Ninety-minute power cuts were implemented on Monday and Tuesday to manage demand. An investigation into the outage was being conducted by the energy ministry.

This is the extent of the "outage". It's more of a capacity reduction than a grid failure.



Mentioning "load shedding" would have made a more accurate title




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