Sri Lanka's Election Commission Chairman Nimal Punchihewa on Monday shot down reports of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) planning to set up a political unit in the island nation, saying the country's electoral law does not permit such an arrangement.
Uniindia: Agartala, Feb 14 (UNI) Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb triggered a fresh controversy after revealed that not only in Indian states, BJP has wished to establish a government in neighbouring Nepal and Sri Lanka while addressing a public gathering here at Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan last evening.
The leaked WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami laid bare the sinister designs hatched by the Modi government
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Sri Lanka has settled a USD 400 million currency swap facility with India, the Indian High Commission here said on Friday. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) had concluded the USD 400 million currency swap agreement in July last year under the SAARC currency swap framework. This swap facility was drawn by CBSL on July 31, 2020 for an initial period of three months. A three-month rollover was provided at CBSL s request till February 1, 2021, the high commission said in a statement. Further extension would require Sri Lanka having a successfully negotiated staff level agreement for an IMF (International Monetary Fund) programme, which Sri Lanka does not have at present, it said, adding that the CBSL settled the swap facility with the RBI as scheduled.