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Power cuts return

The Public Utilities Commmission of Sri Lanka has cleared a rolling power-cut programme that will run nationwide until October 21. Under the plan, the country will be divided into four groups. Each group will lose electricity for one hour every day, with the cuts falling somewhere in the window between 4:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. […]

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