{"id":445518,"date":"2021-10-27T08:38:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T03:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=445518"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T04:06:57","slug":"gautam-adani-meets-sri-lankan-president-rajapaksa-eyes-green-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gautam-adani-meets-sri-lankan-president-rajapaksa-eyes-green-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Adani meets Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa, eyes green investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani called on Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo earlier this week, days after his company inked a deal with the state-owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to develop and run the strategic Colombo Port\u2019s Western Container Terminal (WCT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Rajapaksa has recorded in his diary that he met with \u2018an Indian friend\u2019,\u201d said Kingsley Ratnayaka, media advisor to the President.<\/p>\n<p>The Adani group did not confirm the meeting. Emails sent to the group elicited no reply. However, Adani tweeted on Tuesday: \u201cPrivileged to meet President @GotabayaR and PM @PresRajapaksa. In addition to developing Colombo Port\u2019s Western Container Terminal, the Adani Group will explore other infrastructure partnerships. India&#8217;s strong bonds with Sri Lanka are anchored to centuries\u2019 old historic ties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani called on Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo earlier this week, days after his company inked a deal with the state-owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to develop and run the strategic Colombo Port\u2019s Western Container Terminal (WCT). \u201cPresident Rajapaksa has recorded in his diary that he met with \u2018an Indian friend\u2019,\u201d said Kingsley Ratnayaka, media advisor to the President. The Adani group did not confirm the meeting. Emails sent to the group elicited no reply. However, Adani tweeted on Tuesday: \u201cPrivileged to meet President @GotabayaR and PM @PresRajapaksa. In addition to developing Colombo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}