{"id":665011,"date":"2025-09-18T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=665011"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:33:47","slug":"india-gives-major-relief-to-maldives-extends-deadline-for-repayment-of-50-million-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/665011\/","title":{"rendered":"India gives major relief to Maldives, extends deadline for repayment of $50 million loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/665011\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-665012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/maldives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a>Male: India has extended the US$50 million government bond of Maldives as emergency financial assistance for another year, the Indian High Commission said on Thursday. The repayment deadline for the US$50 million Treasury Bill (T-Bill) has been extended once again &#8220;at the request of the Maldives government&#8221;, the Indian High Commission said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Government of India has been providing Maldives with the facility to subscribe to a number of such Treasury Bills through the State Bank of India (SBI) since March 2019 and extending them annually, interest-free,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;On the request of the Government of Maldives, the State Bank of India (SBI) has taken over the Government Treasury Bill of US$ 50 million issued by the Ministry of Finance of Maldives for another year,&#8221; the statement said. The last date for repayment was Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>India-Maldives relations have historically been strong, based on cultural, economic, and strategic cooperation. However, these have seen some ups and downs due to the Maldives&#8217; recent China-centric stance. India is the Maldives&#8217; closest partner and plays a vital role in maintaining peace and stability in the Indian Ocean region. Relations experienced some strain after Mohamed Muizzu became president, but have since improved significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male: India has extended the US$50 million government bond of Maldives as emergency financial assistance for another year, the Indian High Commission said on Thursday. The repayment deadline for the US$50 million Treasury Bill (T-Bill) has been extended once again &#8220;at the request of the Maldives government&#8221;, the Indian High Commission said in a statement. &#8220;The Government of India has been providing Maldives with the facility to subscribe to a number of such Treasury Bills through the State Bank of India (SBI) since March 2019 and extending them annually, interest-free,&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":665012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665014,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665011\/revisions\/665014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}