TL;DR: Sri Lanka's energy minister confirmed a nationwide power outage affecting 22 million people was caused by a monkey interacting with a grid transformer, leading to an imbalance. Sir Lanka's ...

In a bid to address Sri Lanka’s “monkey menace”, a Sri Lankan academic is testing out intrauterine devices (IUDs) on female macaques, to possibly control the population of the species commonly found ...

Sri Lanka was once again plunged into utter chaos yesterday morning when an islandwide power outage hit the districts at around 10.45 am, disrupting the lives of its citizens and causing millions of ...

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 GMT), ...

Sri Lanka is scheduled to undergo a 90-minute power cut on Monday and Tuesday (February 10-11, 2025) following a breakdown in a coal power plant. Ceylon Electricity Board, the state power entity, ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka on Sunday suffered a nation-wide power outage leaving its citizens in dark for hours and all this happened ...

COLOMBO (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 over the ...

When we signed up for a group tour of Sri Lanka, we figured “India-light.” Sri Lanka, the large island 30 minutes off the southern tip of India, seemed in the brochure to be “like” India without the ...

No more monkeys jumping on the power grid! A countrywide power outage that left many stuck without cool air during a sweltering hot day in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a rogue monkey who climbed into ...

Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day today as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that disrupted supply ...