COLOMBO (News 1st); The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has extended validity of the credit facility it extended to Sri Lanka by three months after the expiry of the first three-month tenure of the credit facility, the New Age reports, citing a senior official of the Bangladesh Bank.The New Age further reports that the loan facility has been renewed following a request from the Sri Lanka itself.

Previously, Bangladesh extended the credit facility amounting to $200 million under a currency swap deal with Sri Lanka, and the country received the loan facility from Bangladesh in three tranches.The BB released $50 million as the first tranche under a currency swap deal to support Sri Lanka on 19th August, 2021.The second tranche amounting to $100 million.

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More than 56,000 boosters given yesterday; 306 community cases; 12 in hospital

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Almost all restrictions affecting Alberta children gone soon

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Windsor asks for help to end protest

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Oscars 2022: Surprising COVID-19 Vaccine Info Revealed

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What is the consumer price index and how is it used to measure inflation?

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Valentine’s Day deals to get back at your ex

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COVID-19 hospitalizations decrease slightly as Alberta’s vaccine passport program officially expires

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Road closures put in place around Queen’s Park ahead of possible protest

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B.C. bringing in vaccine mandate for all remaining health-care workers

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2 men charged in string of New Castle County residential burglaries

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Smithsonian Museum is asking for pictures from Disney vacations

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Govt. program does not pay for crack pipes, White House says

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Covid vaccine centres to close on Christmas and Boxing Day as testing facilities to remain open

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Fire on ferry kills 38 and injures 100 in Bangladesh

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Oxford High School shooting: Court filing gives more info about Crumbleys, glimpse into Ethan's mental state

OXFORD, Mich. (FOX 2) - Oakland County prosecutors claim that the parents of accused Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley knew the boy was depressed before the shooting yet did nothing.Prosecutors filed a brief that shared more details about the Crumbley family and circumstances of the shooting on Thursday, the day after the lawyers for James and Jennifer Crumbley asked to have their bonds lowered.The Crumbleys are being held on $500,000 bonds in connection with the school shooting their son is allegedly responsible for.

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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle release 1st photo of daughter Lilibet in 2021 Xmas card

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released their 2021 Christmas card, offering the world the first official glimpse of their six-month-old daughter, Lilibet “Lili” Diana, born in June this year.Their two-year-old son, Archie Harrison, is also front-and-centre, with a shock of red hair just like his father’s.“This year, 2021, we welcomed our daughter, Lilibet, to the world,” the caption on the card reads.

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Order preventing Chinese Fertilizer payment, extended

COLOMBO (News 1st); The court order on People’s Bank and the local agent for Chinese Organic Fertilizer preventing payment for the rejected fertilizer shipment, was extended to the 6th of January 2022.The Colombo Commercial High Court ruled that the order on whether or not the order will be lifted will be made on the 6th of January 2022.Legal action was filed with the Colombo Commercial High Court after tests confirmed the presence of a pathogen in the shipment of Chinese Organic Fertilizer from Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co., Ltd.The cases were filed by Colombo Commercial Fertilizer and Ceylon Fertilizer Company.The order was made by the Colombo Commercial High Court preventing the payment via Letters of Credit to the local agent of

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Supreme Court to hold special session on Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates

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Student loan payment pause extended through May 1

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Colorado DA asks court to reconsider truck driver’s 110-year sentence in deadly fiery crash

reconsider the 110-year sentence recently imposed on a truck driver who killed four people and injured many others in a deadly pileup that has prompted outcry from the trucking community and a petition signed by at least four million people.First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King filed a motion Tuesday for a court to set a hearing to review the sentence of Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos."As Colorado law required the imposition of the sentence in this case, the law also permits the Court to reconsider its sentence in an exceptional case involving unusual and extenuating circumstances," the motion states.

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