An outage lasting six hours on Sunday was blamed by power minister, Kumara Jayakody, on a monkey that disrupted a grid station in a Colombo suburb. No power cuts were implemented on Wednesday ...

Sri Lanka experienced a nationwide power outage on Sunday after a monkey interfered with an electrical grid in a Colombo suburb. The power failure began at approximately 11:00 local time (05:30 ...

People cannot expect anything from this government, as it has placed a monkey in front of everything else, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) former MP Thisakutti Arachchi said. ..

"A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer ... The power crisis worsened as Colombo faced difficulty importing sufficient stocks of oil and coal after the country’s foreign reserves ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide census of nuisance ... In 2023, the then agricultural minister proposed ...

COLOMBO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout ...

COLOMBO: An intruding monkey in Sri Lanka's electrical grid sub-station caused a general nationwide blackout on Sunday, government officials said. The power outage is yet to be fully restored ...

The animal census is not being conducted with the aim of obtaining 100% accurate data but rather as a survey to estimate the ...

but the monkey business was abandoned following protests from environmentalists. Illustrative image. Shutterstock COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide census of nuisance wildlife ...

Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide ... exporting some 100,000 toque macaques to Chinese zoos, but the monkey business was abandoned following protests from environmentalists.