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India and Egypt reviewed the 'entire gamut of bilateral strategic partnership' during the 14th India-Egypt Foreign Office consultation at Cairo, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Monday.Secretary (South) Dr.Neena Malhotra co-chaired the meeting along with the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt Tamim Khallaf. "Both sides reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral strategic partnership and discussed possible cooperation to take this forward," Jaiswal said in a post on X, adding that they also exchanged views on regional and international issues of mutual interest.— MEAIndia (@MEAIndia) India is now importing 1.4 per cent of its crude oil from Egypt, significantly higher than the earlier 0.3 per cent, in a move to diversify its crud
Less than a year after his appointment, Bhavnish Lathia has resigned as chief technology officer (CTO) of Kotak Mahindra Bank, citing personal reasons, extending the lender’s struggle to retain leadership continuity in the role. Lathia had taken over from Silicon Valley veteran Milind Nagnur, who resigned as CTO in January 2025 after serving a little over two years.In his resignation, Lathia said he was relocating to the US for personal reasons.“The technology leadership team is stable, mature and ready for broader responsibilities,” he wrote in a letter addressed to managing director Ashok Vaswani. “There is never a good time to resign, but I feel this is the best time for me to step off the stage and let the next generation of technology leaders take centre stage.”Following Lat
New Delhi: India's strategic petroleum reserve can last 74 days to meet the demand arising out of any global turbulence, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, the minister said for any country like India, which is growing at a phenomenal pace, there must be a very viable and secure reserve, so that it is not in a vulnerable situation in the case of global turbulence. He said India has several refineries both in the West coast as well as the East. "According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), today we are the world's third largest consumer of crude oil. We have the world's fourth largest refining capacity - currently around 260 million metric tonne per annum going on to 320 million metric tonne per annum.
