Tag: South Asia

Cross-border petroleum pipeline helps Nepal save freight charges
19Sep By Michael SmithNo Comments
USA

Cross-border petroleum pipeline helps Nepal save freight charges

Nepal is saving 2 billion rupees annually in freight charges after the first cross-border petroleum pipeline of South Asia became operational in September 2019.Nepal earlier has been spending 2 billion rupees as freight expenses to bring the petrol from Patna in India. "Not only the freight charges, it also has helped in avoiding the vagaries of transportation by tanker trucks," said Surendra Kumar Paudel, Managing Director of Nepal Oil Corporation.It takes at least 14 hours to transport oil from Patna in India to Amlekhganj. Indian Oil Corporation has been the sole supplier of fuel to Nepal Oil Corporation since 1974.In February this year, a team from the Indian Oil Corporation, which built Amlekhganj pipeline, conducted a survey for pipeline connecting Nepal Oil Corporation's depot at Ch...
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Biden Administration to place US-India ties on ‘high priority’
4Sep By Mike TrudellNo Comments
World

Biden Administration to place US-India ties on ‘high priority’

In a major policy document on Indian-Americans, the Joe Biden administration’s campaign has said that it will place a "high priority" on continuing to strengthen the India-US relationship, asserting that no common global challenge can be solved without the two countries working as responsible partners.The campaign also said Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden believes there can be no tolerance for terrorism in South Asia, cross-border or otherwise.A Biden administration will also work with India to support a rules-based and stable Indo-Pacific region in which no country, including China, is able to threaten its neighbors with impunity, it said."Biden will deliver on his long-standing belief that India and the United States are natural partners, and a Biden administration will place...
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