India will provide an additional $500 million in financial assistance to Sri Lanka for it to buy fuel, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister told reporters on Wednesday. The minister also said Bangladesh was willing to postpone a $450 million in swap repayments. “Assistance by the IMF will take about six months to come to us and it will come in tranches,” Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris said. “During the intervening period, we need to find funds to keep our people supplied with essentials.” Sri Lanka is suffering from one of its worst economic crises in decades, with fuel prices rising and the…