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‘Buy that oil, bring it to your refineries’: Trump’s Energy Secretary on why US gave 30-day Russian oil waiver to India

 US energy secretary Chris Wright on Friday explained the reasoning behind “allowing” India to buy Russian oil, calling it a temporary measure aimed at easing the pressure on the crude market due to the conflict with Iran.. Chris Wright, US energy secretary, said that it wasn’t a policy change towards Russia. (Bloomberg File). The 30-day waiver for India was announced earlier by US treasury secretary Scott Bessent. Wright said it was a “practical way” to get the supply flowing.. “We have implemented short-term measures to help keep oil prices down. We are allowing our friends in India to take oil that is already on ships, refine it, and move those barrels into the market quickly. A practical way to get supply flowing and ease pressure,” Wright said in a post on X.. Speaking to ABC News, the energy secretary said that it wasn’t a policy change towards Russia but just a short-term measure.. “We reached out to our friends in India and said, ‘Buy that oil and bring it into your refineries, ’” he said in the interview.. Listen to what he said:. The US doesn’t want India buying Russian oil in normal times and has even imposed a 25 per cent tariff on New Delhi for doing so. The tariff was removed early last month after US President Donald Trump said that India had agreed not to buy crude oil from Moscow.. Why the reprieve now?. The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, killing the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since then, the conflict has escalated and engulfed the entire West Asia.. Iranian retaliatory attacks have forced the closure of several oil and gas fields in the region. The Strait of Hormuz, which is the route for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply, is effectively closed due to security threats.. All this has made oil prices shoot up, so the US needed to step in.. What Scott Bessent said on the 30-day waiver for India. Amid the escalating conflict with Iran, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday, “President (Donald) Trump’s energy agenda has resulted in oil and gas production reaching the highest levels ever recorded.. To enable oil to keep flowing into the global market, the Treasury Department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil.”. “India is an essential partner of the United States, and we fully anticipate that New Delhi will ramp up purchases of US oil. This stop-gap measure will alleviate the pressure caused by Iran’s attempt to take global energy hostage,” Bessent said in a post on X.. This “deliberately short-term measure” will not provide a significant financial benefit to the Russian government, as it only authorises transactions involving oil that is already stranded at sea, Bessent said. 

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Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE: Vehicles set on fire, streets choked with protests amid tensions

 Live. By. Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: To prevent tensions in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar amid ongoing protests, security has been heightened to maintain law and order situation. Dwarka district DCP Kushal Pal Singh said that police have appealed people of both the communities to maintain peace and order.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The father of Tarun Kumar, who died in the clashes that erupted in Uttam Nagar on Holi, staged a sit-in protest outside the Uttam Nagar Police Station in New Delhi on Friday.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The festival of Holi took a grim turn in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area earlier this week after a man was killed when two families from different communities clashed over a water balloon thrown by a minor. The clashes sparked on the night of Holi on Wednesday, March 4, when an 11-year-old from a Hindu family was throwing water balloons from her terrace on passers by below, one of which hit a Muslim woman, to which the latter objected.. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, enraged over the death, gathered around the Muslim family’s home in an alleged attempt to attack, Hindustan Times reported earlier citing a police official who asked not to be identified.. …Read More. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, 

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Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE: Vehicles set on fire, streets choked with protests amid tensions

 Live. By. Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: To prevent tensions in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar amid ongoing protests, security has been heightened to maintain law and order situation. Dwarka district DCP Kushal Pal Singh said that police have appealed people of both the communities to maintain peace and order.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The father of Tarun Kumar, who died in the clashes that erupted in Uttam Nagar on Holi, staged a sit-in protest outside the Uttam Nagar Police Station in New Delhi on Friday.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The festival of Holi took a grim turn in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area earlier this week after a man was killed when two families from different communities clashed over a water balloon thrown by a minor. The clashes sparked on the night of Holi on Wednesday, March 4, when an 11-year-old from a Hindu family was throwing water balloons from her terrace on passers by below, one of which hit a Muslim woman, to which the latter objected.. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, enraged over the death, gathered around the Muslim family’s home in an alleged attempt to attack, Hindustan Times reported earlier citing a police official who asked not to be identified.. …Read More. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, 

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Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE: Vehicles set on fire, streets choked with protests amid tensions

 Live. By. Delhi Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: To prevent tensions in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar amid ongoing protests, security has been heightened to maintain law and order situation. Dwarka district DCP Kushal Pal Singh said that police have appealed people of both the communities to maintain peace and order.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The father of Tarun Kumar, who died in the clashes that erupted in Uttam Nagar on Holi, staged a sit-in protest outside the Uttam Nagar Police Station in New Delhi on Friday.. Uttam Nagar clashes LIVE updates: The festival of Holi took a grim turn in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area earlier this week after a man was killed when two families from different communities clashed over a water balloon thrown by a minor. The clashes sparked on the night of Holi on Wednesday, March 4, when an 11-year-old from a Hindu family was throwing water balloons from her terrace on passers by below, one of which hit a Muslim woman, to which the latter objected.. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, enraged over the death, gathered around the Muslim family’s home in an alleged attempt to attack, Hindustan Times reported earlier citing a police official who asked not to be identified.. …Read More. This led to an altercation between the family of the girl and the woman, which later turned violent, said police.. At least four people were injured in the incident including three from the Hindu family, out of which, 26-year-old Tarun Kumar died on Thursday morning, triggering further clashes in the area.. Protests erupt, vehicles set ablaze. The death caused by the altercation has led to protests in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Some vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night and streets were choked by demonstrators demanding justice for the deceased.. The police had arrested four people and apprehended a minor boy from the Muslim family on Thursday evening itself. The total arrests made in the case till now is eight and a murder case has been filed over Kumar’s death.. Amid heightened tensions in the area, police and other security forces have been deployed in the neighbourhood as people, 

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MP man, out of jail, kills teen; locals see him ‘eating victim’s brain’, ‘drinking blood’

 A 46-year-old man, who was released from jail a few weeks ago in a case related to the murder of his wife, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing a 16-year-old boy and trying to eat his flesh and drink his blood in Samanna village of Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district, police said.. Police are now trying to find out the reason behind the murder. (PTI/File Photo). The accused, Gudda Patel, a resident of Samanna village, had earlier been arrested for slitting his wife’s throat a few years ago. He was convicted in that case and was released from jail in January, as mentioned in an earlier HT report.. ALSO READ | Class 10 student stabbed 27 times in 30 seconds by two minors in MP’s Bhopal. The 16-year-old boy, a resident of Arthkheda village, had come to visit his sister at her house in Samanna village.. While returning on his bike, Patel allegedly attacked him using an iron rod and later struck him with an iron hammer. The teenager died at the spot, city superintendent of police (CSP) told HT.. The police officer further said that villagers claimed they saw Patel trying to eat flesh from the boy’s head and drink blood from his hands after they reached the spot.. “When the villagers heard the screams, they rushed to the spot and found Patel eating flesh from the boy’s head and drinking blood from his hands,” Pandey added.. Villagers attempted to catch the accused, but he threatened them with the hammer. “He had hidden in agricultural land near the village. The villagers chased him and started pelting stones at him. Patel also attacked the villagers with stones,” the officer said.. Police then reached the location and surrounded the field. “After an hour’s effort, police arrested the accused and took him to the police station,” Pandey said.. A relative of the victim’s sister called for the death penalty for Patel, news agency PTI reported.. Police are now trying to find out the reason behind the murder.. (With inputs from Shruti Tomar) 

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Veteran journalist Narayan Bareth passes away after cardiac arrest in Jaipur

 Veteran journalist Narayan Bareth passed away here after suffering a cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment for pneumonia, a family member said on Saturday.. Former chief minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot said Narayan Bareth had carved a distinct identity through public-interest journalism while working with reputed organisations such as the BBC. (X/@cpjoshiBJP). His funeral will be conducted later in the day in Jaipur.. “Bareth had been hospitalised for several days due to pneumonia and suffered a cardiac arrest on Friday night, leading to his death,” the family member said.. The veteran journalist had worked with the BBC and later served as the Rajasthan Information Commissioner.. Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and other leaders expressed grief over his demise.. Gehlot said Bareth had carved a distinct identity through public-interest journalism while working with reputed organisations such as the BBC.. He said Bareth also left a lasting impression during his tenure as information commissioner and was known as an efficient administrator.. He prayed for peace for the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family to bear the loss. 

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