Russia has offered oil to India at a steep discount of $35 barrel on prices before the war as mounting international pressure lowers the appetite for its barrels elsewhere following the invasion of Ukraine, reported Bloomberg. The sanctions-hit nation is offering its flagship Urals grade to India at discounts of as much as $35 a
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India has agreed to develop three Sri Lankan wind farms on islets between the countries, officials said on Tuesday, in a victory for New Delhi after the project was taken away from a Chinese firm. New Delhi has long been alarmed about the growing Chinese influence in the region. In 2020, 20 Indian soldiers and four
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India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd has sold at least one cargo of Russian Sokol oil to India refiners Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Bharat Petroleum Corp after failing to draw interest in a tender earlier this month, sources familiar with the matter said. Indian companies are snapping up Russian oil as it is available at a deep discount after
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India has reported 1,270 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, continuing with its trend of clocking less than 2,000 daily cases for the last several days. The fresh number of infections takes the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country to 4,30,20,723. The number of active coronavirus cases has now slipped to 15,859 –
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India reported 4,194 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the total confirmed tally to 4,29,84,261 while active infections continued to fall. A total of 255 COVID-19 deaths were registered in the period, taking the toll due to the infectious disease to 5,15,714. Kerala continued to report backlog deaths as part of its data reconciliation
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A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital Wednesday in the besieged port city of Mariupol amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow’s invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn. Ukrainian officials said the attack wounded at least 17 people, including women near childbirth. The ground shook more than a mile
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