COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s central bank received $1.1 billion from neighboring India Thursday as part of a currency swap agreement, in order to shore up its foreign reserves and ease pressure on the local currency.

The US dollars were injected from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said in a statement.

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