{"id":465946,"date":"2022-02-03T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465946"},"modified":"2022-02-03T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:35:31","slug":"india-extends-500-million-line-of-credit-for-fuel-purchases-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-extends-500-million-line-of-credit-for-fuel-purchases-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India extends $500-million line of credit for fuel purchases to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW\u2009DELHI: India on Wednesday extended a $500-million line of credit for purchasing petroleum products to Sri Lanka, currently grappling with its worst foreign exchange and energy crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Export Import (Exim) Bank and the Sri Lankan government signed an agreement for the line of credit in the presence of Sri Lankan finance minister Basil Rajapaksa and Indian envoy Gopal Baglay. Rajapaksa has been coordinating his government\u2019s efforts to seek financial assistance from India to tide over the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government\u2019s support for fuel imports through the line of credit is in response to Colombo\u2019s \u201curgent requirement\u201d, the Indian high commission said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW\u2009DELHI: India on Wednesday extended a $500-million line of credit for purchasing petroleum products to Sri Lanka, currently grappling with its worst foreign exchange and energy crisis in decades. India\u2019s Export Import (Exim) Bank and the Sri Lankan government signed an agreement for the line of credit in the presence of Sri Lankan finance minister Basil Rajapaksa and Indian envoy Gopal Baglay. Rajapaksa has been coordinating his government\u2019s efforts to seek financial assistance from India to tide over the crisis. The Indian government\u2019s support for fuel imports through the line of credit is in response to Colombo\u2019s \u201curgent requirement\u201d, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465946","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}