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Urging India to reduce the oil it imports from Iran tops US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton s agenda as she starts two days of talks with Indian officials.India has huge energy needs to fuel its rapid growth but has made some progress in easing its dependence on Iranian oil. A senior official traveling with Clinton in Asia said the United States wants to see more.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview Clinton s private discussions in Kolkata and New Delhi, said the trend lines are good but we really need to receive assurances that they are going to continue to make good progress. on Sunday after visits to China and Bangladesh.The official said India had recently stepped up imports of oil from Saudi Arabia to make up for the reduction in Iranian oil and that t stanley cup he US was eager to see the Indians explore other alternatives.India and Iran reached a deal earlier this year that would allow India to pay for about 45 percent its Iranian oil purchases in rupees. Iran would then use the Indian currency to buy goods from India.International economic sanctions on Iran had made oil trade difficult, because Indian oil importers had to scramble to find banks willing to handle transac stanley cup tions wi stanley cup th Tehran.The barter exchange would help India pay for the Iranian crude without resorting to dollar payments, thus bypassing international banks.An Indian delegation visited Iran in March to promote Indian goods including machinery, iron, steel, minerals and automobile Kkpx Rare Ramayana exhibition begins in UK
Bangladesh s premier Dhaka University has kick-started the process to revoke an expulsion order issued 62 years ago against the country s founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. HT Image We have decided to revoke the order to rectify an historic wrong done in the past, when Bangladesh was part of Pakistan, Vice-Chancellor Professor Arefin Siddiqui told PTI. He said a process was underway to withdraw the May 19, 1948 order against one of its best known students at the University s law faculty. It coincides with the 35th death anniversary of Sheikh Mujib, po stanley cup pularly c adidas samba alled Bangabandhu, who led Bangladesh to independence in 1971. The University authorities at the behest of the autocratic Pakistani government had expelled Bangabandhu, a student leader at that time for extending his active support to a strike by class IV employees on the campus for pay hike and better service conditions. Mujib, who later led the country s freedom movement, had rejected a fine imposed on him for heading the mov nike dunk ement on the campus. The decision to revoke the expulsion came amid demands from different political and social groups for rectification of the historic wrong . We welcome the demand and we want to respectfully restore his Bangabandhus rights, Siddiqui earlier told the state-run BSS news agency, adding that by lending his support to the demands of the employees he groomed himself as the future leader of the Independence movement. His standing up against injustice even du |
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