India, April 5 -- India and Sri Lanka on Saturday concluded crucial agreements on defence cooperation, electric grid connectivity and an energy hub at Trincomalee as Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured President Anura Kumara Dissanayake that New Delhi would continue assisting the island nation's economic recovery efforts.

The two sides finalised ten agreements for cooperation in areas ranging from digital transformation to debt restructuring and health and medicine and the two leaders virtually conducted the groundbreaking for the Sampur power project that is to be built with Indian support.

"Whether it was the terrorist attack of 2019, the Covid pandemic or the recent economic crisis, we have stood with the people of Sri Lanka in ever...