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.
In 'A Resurgent Northeast', Ashish Kundra mentions Mizoram extensively. But at the launch in Taj Mahal Hotel, the non-BJP-ruled state is mentioned once, at the tail end of the session.
At press conference, Union minister tears into Congress leader and demands he 'apologise unambiguously'. Meanwhile, both houses of Parliament adjourned as BJP keeps up attack on Congress.
When asked how India would respond if pressured by the EU or US to halt Russian oil purchases, Puri said Modi govt feels no such pressure but also has back up plans ready.
Responding to question by CNN, the Union Petroleum Minister also defended India's Russian oil purchases stating that India buys in a quarter what Europe buys in one afternoon.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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