National Conference (NC) Member of Parliament (MP) Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly ignoring Iran while engaging with Gulf monarchies hosting American military bases during the ongoing military escalation in West Asia. Mehdi, the Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, lamented that while the efforts…
The government has urged state-owned oil companies to look at purchasing more US and Venezuelan crude, after a trade deal in which the Trump administration said India agreed to cut back on Russian oil imports, Bloomberg reported. This development comes even as Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said that the trade deal with the US is…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Russia will fully support the agenda of the BRICS group under the chairmanship of India. He said this in an interview given to RT on Monday. Lavrov said that in view of the current situation, the agenda put forward by India is very important and practical. It…
India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has once again pushed the ball into the Ministry of External Affairs’ court when asked about the negotiations on Russian oil as part of the India-US bilateral trade agreement. When asked in an interview by ANI“if there is a lack of bilateral consensus on Russian oil or on defense matters,…
A parliamentary committee has flagged India’s heavy dependence on crude oil imports and rising geopolitical risks as major challenges for the country, and urged the government to step up diversification of supply sources and strengthen risk management mechanisms. In its report tabled in Parliament last week, the Public Undertaking Committee noted that India imports nearly…
