India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.
This came after Trump accused India of buying 'massive amounts' of Russian oil and said he would 'substantially raise the tariff paid by India to the USA'.
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.
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.
Import made possible by licences granted by US treasury dept's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which is responsible for enforcing sanction, says Russian state-owned Sputnik Globe news.
Since the imposition of the price cap in December 2022, India has mostly paid above the $60 ceiling for Russian oil that had still proved cheaper than the similar grades from elsewhere.
The corridor, which is around 5,600 nautical miles long, will reduce transportation time of cargo from Russian Far East to India to around 24 days from current 40 days.
As Houthis attack ships in Red Sea in solidarity with Palestine, shippers are considering alternative routes. Delay in oil supplies to India could force it to buy more from Middle East.
We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
As if crude oil was cheap before Ukraine war. Russia is giving cheap oil because of sanction imposed by the USA. If India wants cheap oil then there’s nobody except Mr Donald Trump who can deliver by his promise to his voters and policy of ‘drill-baby-drill. Russia will not sell it’s oil one dollar cheaper if there are no sanction. As for Indian strength, we see every day from the news from Bangladesh. Late Mrs Indiraji freed Bangladesh from Pakistan, TODAY we lost it to Pakistan again.
If Russia ( earlier the Soviet Union ) was the glue that bound Europe and USA together for eighty years, now renewed as President Trump feels disappointed by President Putin’s intransigence, China is what made India and USA “ natural allies “. Indo – Pacific. Quad. Both sides are revising their assessments of what the other brings to the table. AUKUS was a concrete undermining of Quad. Now Philippines. India has seen its always difficult relationship with China veering into conflict over the last five years. Pakistan is not in the same league as China, but America’s outreach to it against the backdrop of Pahalgam and Operation Sindoor hurts. 2. This is an extraordinary moment in a relationship both countries had nurtured for three decades.
India keeps repeating the same mistakes that keeps it poor. We are addicted to socialism, poverty, and backwardness while the free-market countries thrive and prosper.
As if crude oil was cheap before Ukraine war. Russia is giving cheap oil because of sanction imposed by the USA. If India wants cheap oil then there’s nobody except Mr Donald Trump who can deliver by his promise to his voters and policy of ‘drill-baby-drill. Russia will not sell it’s oil one dollar cheaper if there are no sanction. As for Indian strength, we see every day from the news from Bangladesh. Late Mrs Indiraji freed Bangladesh from Pakistan, TODAY we lost it to Pakistan again.
If Russia ( earlier the Soviet Union ) was the glue that bound Europe and USA together for eighty years, now renewed as President Trump feels disappointed by President Putin’s intransigence, China is what made India and USA “ natural allies “. Indo – Pacific. Quad. Both sides are revising their assessments of what the other brings to the table. AUKUS was a concrete undermining of Quad. Now Philippines. India has seen its always difficult relationship with China veering into conflict over the last five years. Pakistan is not in the same league as China, but America’s outreach to it against the backdrop of Pahalgam and Operation Sindoor hurts. 2. This is an extraordinary moment in a relationship both countries had nurtured for three decades.
India keeps repeating the same mistakes that keeps it poor. We are addicted to socialism, poverty, and backwardness while the free-market countries thrive and prosper.