{"id":462036,"date":"2022-01-17T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=462036"},"modified":"2022-01-17T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T03:22:32","slug":"sri-lanka-invites-more-indian-investments-in-ports-energy-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-invites-more-indian-investments-in-ports-energy-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka invites more Indian investments in ports, energy, manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has urged more Indian investments in ports, infrastructure, energy, power and manufacturing sectors, days after New Delhi announced a USD 900 million loan to Colombo to build up its depleted foreign reserves and for food imports amid a shortage of almost all essential commodities in the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa held talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday during which the two ministers discussed projects and investment plans by India that would strengthen the economy of the island nation. <\/p>\n<p>While thanking India for the economic package, Rajapaksa welcomed more Indian investments in Sri Lanka, and assured that a conducive environment would be provided that would benefit both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has urged more Indian investments in ports, infrastructure, energy, power and manufacturing sectors, days after New Delhi announced a USD 900 million loan to Colombo to build up its depleted foreign reserves and for food imports amid a shortage of almost all essential commodities in the island nation. Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa held talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday during which the two ministers discussed projects and investment plans by India that would strengthen the economy of the island nation. While thanking India for the economic package, Rajapaksa welcomed more Indian investments in [&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-462036","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\/462036","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=462036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}