{"id":489419,"date":"2022-05-05T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489419"},"modified":"2022-05-05T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T07:04:17","slug":"dont-politicise-crude-oil-purchase-from-russia-says-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dont-politicise-crude-oil-purchase-from-russia-says-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t politicise crude oil purchase from Russia, says India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  In a hard-hitting response to Western media reports criticising India\u2019s crude oil purchase from Russia, the Petroleum Ministry on Wednesday said it was routine in nature. Too miniscule in comparison to the country\u2019s total oil consumption. India\u2019s critics should desist from unnecessarily policising the issue, the ministry added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia\u2019s legitimate energy transactions cannot be politicised. Energy flows are yet to be sanctioned,\u201d the petroleum ministry said in a statement, noting that a series of pieces by certain media platforms makes conjectures and tries to sensationalise routine purchase of crude from Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a hard-hitting response to Western media reports criticising India\u2019s crude oil purchase from Russia, the Petroleum Ministry on Wednesday said it was routine in nature. Too miniscule in comparison to the country\u2019s total oil consumption. India\u2019s critics should desist from unnecessarily policising the issue, the ministry added. \u201cIndia\u2019s legitimate energy transactions cannot be politicised. Energy flows are yet to be sanctioned,\u201d the petroleum ministry said in a statement, noting that a series of pieces by certain media platforms makes conjectures and tries to sensationalise routine purchase of crude from Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}