The best ability of Indian refineries is that they can switch between Gulf crude, Russian Urals, and Venezuelan heavy oil. They were built with deep conversion capacity, with units that crack the heavy, sulphur-laden bottom of the barrel into clean diesel and petrol.
Why is India delaying or taking so much time to make this deal possible? There is no single answer to that, but if we put the pieces together, India’s go-slow approach starts to make sense and more like a strategy. It rests on five calculations.
As India charges toward 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030, solar surges and nighttime wind variations present a critical operational test for the national grid. Beyond generation capacity, the real crucible of the clean energy transition lies in storage. This first instalment of a three-part series examines the five technical storage vectors identified by the Union government—from closed-loop mechanical systems to chemical vectors—and the pan-Indian transmission network engineering 24×7 dispatchable power.
The historic Stilwell Road promises an economic revolution for India’s Northeast by directly linking Assam to China’s Yunnan province. We explore its harrowing WWII origins, its fragmented present-day status across three nations, and the severe geopolitical roadblocks keeping this trans-Asian superhighway closed.
At the 18th BRICS Summit, India drew a definitive line between geopolitical posturing and macroeconomic reality. Discover why New Delhi is explicitly rejecting a centralised BRICS currency and SWIFT rival in favour of pragmatic, interoperable national payment systems.
Lab-grown diamonds have collapsed a century-old empire built on the hype of sentimentality and romanticism, and are now getting ready to be a part of the technology infrastructure taking humanity forward. De Beers established a monopoly by selling a myth; science has broken it.
“Risks related to the Bosporus and the Strait of Hormuz might require alternative routes,” stated deputy PM Khusnullin.
A monsoon that sustains more than a billion people is being rewritten, one melting season at a time, in a sea most Indians will never see. That isn’t a metaphor. It’s a data point. It means India’s Arctic stake isn’t mainly about trade or minerals. At its core, it’s also existential, in a way no ally’s is.
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