Author: Animish Murty

NEW DELHI: A change is on the horizon for oil demand, with India set to eclipse China as the most important driver of global growth — and potentially the last, as the world shifts to a greener future.A swelling population, which has likely already surpassed that of China, will help to underpin that growth along with consumption trends. India’s transition from traditional gasoline and diesel-fueled transport is expected to lag other regions, whereas China’s adoption of electric vehicles is skyrocketing.While India is unlikely to replicate the mammoth scale of China’s expansive oil network — the nation’s daily crude consumption is…

The Delhi CM also says if AAP MLAs are afraid of going to prison ‘for the betterment of the country’, they should consider severing ties with the party. On the heels of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said independent India has yet to see a Prime Minister more insecure, corrupt and least educated as Narendra Modi. In a tweet, Kejriwal termed Rahul’s expulsion from the Lok Sabha “shocking” and argued that the country was going through “very difficult times” and 130 crore citizens had to “unite against their arrogant power”. Addressing…

MOSCOW, February 15 – RIA Novosti. They began to export documents from the state bodies of Artemivsk, writes the Ukrainian edition of Strana “The archives of state institutions are being taken out of Bakhmut (Ukrainian name of Artemivsk. – Ed.),” the publication says, citing Ukrainian volunteer Vyacheslav Ilchenko. The publication does not specify who exactly takes the documents. A video purportedly filmed by a volunteer has also been released, showing folders of papers from the city’s education department being loaded onto a minibus. They are thrown through a broken window and put into a car. Earlier today, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the…

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea seeking the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath as a national disaster. According to the cause list of January 16 uploaded on the apex court website, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala would hear the petition filed by Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati. Joshimath, the gateway to famous pilgrimage sites like Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib and international skiing destination Auli, is facing a major challenge due to land subsidence. Joshimath is sinking gradually with huge cracks developing…

New York, Brussels (21/12 – 60). Tajikistan regime’s crimes committed against humanity breeds an atmosphere of fear and oppression amomgst the Pamiri community was the verdict of a United Nations human rights mission conducted by Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor, after a recent visit to the country earlier this month. She described the situation of human rights defenders in Tajikistan as an atmosphere of corruption and the fear of persecution. She called on the government to treat human rights defenders as allies, not opponents. There is a violent repression of the ethnic and religious minority – Pamir Ismailis – and it…