Russia now accounts for about half of India’s crude imports. Experts say this reflects source diversification, but high concentration carries risks from sanctions, shipping curbs.
Refiners and crude oil explorers have been ordered to maximize LPG output beyond current minimum producible levels, according to a government notification.
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.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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