Latest US campaign hit multiple Iranian locations including Bandar Abbas, Konarak, Bushehr, Aq Qala, Iranshahr airport, and infrastructure of the strategic Chabahar port.
India did not choose to move away from Iran for oil; it was forced to. The fact that India managed the costs of this transition efficiently does not convert them into gains.
India has been winding up its operations at Chabahar port after Trump, upon his return to the White House, upped the ante on Iran, removing sanctions waiver for the port.
India is making its decisions on the basis of a third party's interests, for all the election-time braggadocio of the Prime Minister. 'Desh nahi jhukne doonga', anyone remember?
After Taliban foreign minister's visit, acting minister of commerce & industry Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi is currently on a five-day trip to India, along with a high-powered delegation.
For the project, India first received a sanctions waiver in November 2018 from Trump 1.0, but his administration rescinded it last month, threatening to complicate India's involvement.
India Ports Global Limited had signed a 10-year long term contract with Iran’s Port and Maritime Organization in May 2024 to develop the Chabahar port.
India's trade with Tehran has cratered since 2018 after US sanctions were reimposed on the West Asian country, and China has stepped into the resulting vacuum.
India has been using Shahid Beheshti terminal at Chabahar to ship humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, bypassing Pakistan. The 10-year deal will allow India to operate the terminal at the port.
Government tells Parliament toll collections touched Rs 70,278 crore in 2025-26, Rajasthan has highest number of toll plazas, while expenditure on operating plazas is not maintained centrally.
Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.
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