{"id":658579,"date":"2026-02-10T12:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658579"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:55:45","slug":"despite-trumps-exec-order-why-piyush-goyal-says-russian-oil-and-india-us-deal-are-different-issues-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-trumps-exec-order-why-piyush-goyal-says-russian-oil-and-india-us-deal-are-different-issues-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Trump&#8217;s Exec Order, why Piyush Goyal says Russian oil and India-US deal are &#8216;different issues&#8217; | Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A narrative rift appears to have opened up on multiple fronts in New Delhi and Washington in the one week since President Donald Trump announced a trade deal and rollback of tariffs, which was later confirmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India&#8217;s commerce minister Piyush Goyal has since skirted questions centred on Russian oil: Will India stop buying it, as Trump claimed, or continue nonetheless?<\/p>\n<p>While the Trump administration asserts a total cessation of Russian oil imports was a prerequisite for the deal, New Delhi\u2019s lead negotiator, Piyush Goyal, has so far remained diplomatic about it, only saying India can \u201cdiversify\u201d its energy-sourcing destinations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A narrative rift appears to have opened up on multiple fronts in New Delhi and Washington in the one week since President Donald Trump announced a trade deal and rollback of tariffs, which was later confirmed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India&#8217;s commerce minister Piyush Goyal has since skirted questions centred on Russian oil: Will India stop buying it, as Trump claimed, or continue nonetheless? While the Trump administration asserts a total cessation of Russian oil imports was a prerequisite for the deal, New Delhi\u2019s lead negotiator, Piyush Goyal, has so far remained diplomatic about it, only saying India can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658579","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}