The Union minister also spoke about Op Sindoor, Rahul Gandhi & India’s energy game plan. He praised the Modi government’s development and welfare record over the past 11 years.
In an exclusive interview with ThePrint, the Union minister said AAP’s credibility has eroded due to lack of work & corruption, which is leading to anti-incumbency in Delhi.
He was attending the 52nd Gastech Exhibition & Conference along with the world’s four leading energy ministers, at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston city, Texas.
India’s multilateral diplomacy has traditionally suffered from a wilful lack of resources, said Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri at the launch of the new book ‘Economic Diplomacy’.
Puri criticises silence of INDIA bloc leaders on Maliwal assault, questions commitment to women’s safety. ‘AAP story is over,’ he tells ThePrint in an interview.
India has been buying crude oil from Russia, which is now its top oil supplier, at discounted prices since the West imposed import curbs following its invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking at exhibition commemorating 14 August as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’, Union minister & BJP leader Puri also asserts that ‘Akhand Bharat will emerge’.
In Lok Sabha, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri says fuel prices set by oil marketing companies. But price of India's crude import basket has dipped by 32% in last one year.
India aims to raise its annual refining capacity to 9 million barrels per day (bpd), Puri said. Oil refining capacity in the country is currently at about 5.2 million bpd.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Each country’s is. The only question being the time frame over which costs and benefits of decisions such as purchase of discounted Russian oil are evaluated.
Each country’s is. The only question being the time frame over which costs and benefits of decisions such as purchase of discounted Russian oil are evaluated.