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Fuel prices cut
New NPP govt promised to reduce prices significantly during election campaign
"It’s now up to the current Government of President @anuradisanayake to follow through with the process and recover th...
A number of energy projects have been dragged due to delays in approvals
The supplier was chosen among six bidders
Power cuts to depend on hydro and other fuel
Motorists see queues again as many filling stations have run out of fuel stocks.
Sri Lanka has one state employee for 14 people
Queries raised on awardee
Weekend to have 3 hours power cuts
"Our endeavour is to prevent any untoward incident involving Indians outside India."
Power cuts of 1 hours and 40 minutes between 01.00 pm and 06.00 pm and 1 hour 20 minutes from 06.00pm to 10.00 pm.
As of August 23 more than six million vehicles have signed up for the QR system.
Power cuts worsened by coal plant outages
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The project has been awarded to 3W Power Management Ltd.
Coal plant expected to be back on stream on August 29
The suspects along with petrol and the vehicles used for the illegal act were handed over to the Kalpitiya Police.
Australia recently provided Sri Lanka 75 million US dollars in food and medicine aid.
Kerosene was out of stock in the market as Sri Lanka’s sole oil refinery that produced kerosene remained shut.
On Sunday August 21, Sri Lanka hiked the price of kerosene from 87 rupees per litre to 340 rupees per litre.
A local refinery began production on August 20 after being closed for months
"CPC & CPC reforms are a must & will continue to work to implement them."
One-hour power cuts were extended due to a breakdown in Norochcholai coal power plant
A second ship carrying 120,000mt crude oil is expected on the following week.
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