{"id":485932,"date":"2022-04-22T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485932"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:00:57","slug":"india-will-give-another-500-million-in-fuel-aid-sri-lanka-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-will-give-another-500-million-in-fuel-aid-sri-lanka-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"India will give another $500 million in fuel aid: Sri Lanka foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India will give Sri Lanka an additional $500 million in financial assistance to buy fuel, the troubled island nation&#8217;s foreign minister told reporters Wednesday, adding that Bangladesh was also willing to postpone $450 million in swap repayments to ease Colombo&#8217;s burden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Assistance by the IMF will take about six months to come to us and it will come in tranches,&#8221; Sri Lankan Foreign Minister GL Peiris was quoted by Reuters. &#8220;During the intervening period, we need to find funds to keep our people supplied with essentials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second $500 million India has provided in fuel credit to a Sri Lanka government battling the country&#8217;s worst financial crisis in living memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will give Sri Lanka an additional $500 million in financial assistance to buy fuel, the troubled island nation&#8217;s foreign minister told reporters Wednesday, adding that Bangladesh was also willing to postpone $450 million in swap repayments to ease Colombo&#8217;s burden. &#8220;Assistance by the IMF will take about six months to come to us and it will come in tranches,&#8221; Sri Lankan Foreign Minister GL Peiris was quoted by Reuters. &#8220;During the intervening period, we need to find funds to keep our people supplied with essentials.&#8221; This will be the second $500 million India has provided in fuel credit to [&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-485932","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\/485932","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=485932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}