Govt informs Rajya Sabha that said domestic crude oil production fell from 29.7 million metric tonnes in 2021-22 to 28 MMT in 2025-26, mainly due to ageing oilfields.
Oil industry analysts say Indian refiners have little need for additional supplies as most crude requirements till the first half of August are already secured.
Global publications assess deal’s implications for India’s energy needs, Vance’s vociferous defence of the MoU, and how weakening rupee is impacting Indian students’ dream to study abroad.
By encouraging citizens to work from home or carpool, PM Narendra Modi is not idealising the pandemic. He is urging Indians to undertake actions that policy cannot swiftly achieve.
Hormuz crisis is only the latest in a line of geopolitical flashpoints that shaped India’s energy strategy over the years, starting from OPEC oil embargo that followed the Yom Kippur war.
Shipments to India soared by more than fourfold in March, surpassing those to the US, according to shipping reports compiled by Bloomberg & data from maritime intelligence firm Kpler.
India has already purchased nearly 16 million barrels of Russian crude so far in March 2026, translating to roughly 1.6 million barrels per day, indicating a sharp uptick.
After dominating India’s crude imports since 2023, Russian supplies slowed amid US sanctions, but a 30-day ‘waiver’ amid West Asia tensions could now push flows back towards 2 mbpd.
Ajinkya Rahane was at the heart of India's rise under Kohli and Shastri. Nowhere was his understated value more immortalised than during the 2020–21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange
The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.
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