In episode 1807 of Cut the Clutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at the strategic importance, geography & geology of the Strait of Hormuz.
Also, The Economist examines if India’s ‘balancing act’ amid chaos offers it autonomy, or does it suggest it is ‘dangerously dependent on lots of different places at once’.
Global media also makes a case for India to join the Comprehensive & Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and reports on Nitish Kumar stepping down from CM's chair & a judge's warning.
Indian refiners had been importing roughly 1 mbpd of Russian crude in the recent months, and the waiver will effectively allow them to lift volumes above this baseline.
Nearly 50% of India’s crude imports are exposed to the chokepoint. So far this year, India has imported an average of 2.6 million barrels per day (mbpd) from Gulf countries.
Trump plans to tap the US International Development Finance Corporation to support charterers, shipowners and insurers, but shipowners remain cautious due to limited details.
Shortfall could hit tens of millions of homes if gas cargoes due in March do not start moving within days, Bloomberg has learnt. India buys over 90% of its LPG from the Middle East.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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