Prasanta Boruah

A SOCIO- POLITICALY AWARE TECHNOCRAT 🇮🇳

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

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[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

A very harsh response from Rubio. Implicitly justifying the killing of Indian mariners.

The US is not upholding peace and security in the Strait. Iran may not be innocent but It is the US that is the cause of disturbing peace and security there by its initial attacks on Iran.

India has to tolerate the killing of its mariners because the US will not tolerate the violation of its unilateral blockade.

Not even a pro forma regret at the killing of civilian unarmed nationals of a friendly country.

Rubio has raised the ante. He has snubbed us.

[Aravind @aravind]

My hunch says there's lots and lots of oil under India, on & off-shore. We just haven't explored much and haven't developed what we found. India collided with the Himalayas transiting through the tropical zone for millions of years. Entire forests must have got buried under.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

EAM Jaishankar, New Maldives FM hold talks:

[Sputnik India @Sputnik_India]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 'They сan’t сome': Retired Indian Navy сaptain reveals the brutal truth about the US Fleet in Hormuz

Captain DK Sharma (Retd) to Sputnik India:

"They're telling the world the American fleet has entered the Strait of Hormuz. But the fleet is still 100 miles away, hovering in the eastern Gulf of Oman. Close enough to watch. Too far to act."

What’s really happening, he explained, is a blockade. Geography offers no other path. No matter how far out the ships are detected — 25 kilometers or just meters from the coast — they will be spotted and turned back. This is a 100% effective blockade.

An attack here is nearly impossible. The Iranian coast is armed with advanced mini-submarines, underwater drones, and dense minefields that make any approach a deadly gamble. The US Navy, he said, wants no part of it — one strike could shatter its morale.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Three Pakistanis - Suleiman Shah, Abu Hamza, and Habib Tahir - carried out the Pahalgam terror attack; three Indians - Parvaiz Ahmad, Bashir Ahmad, and Mohd Yousuf - helped them.

Hatred does not only come from across the border; it comes from an ideology that transcends borders.

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

#BREAKING: India hits back on Hellhole comment.

MEA Spokesperson @MEAIndia says: “The remarks are obviously uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste. They certainly do not reflect the reality of the India-us relationship, which has long been based on mutual respect and shared interests.”

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

“The only man that can now help (broker a ceasefire) is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India has friendly relations with everyone in the region, with Israel, Iran, with the U.S. & Russia too. Nobody else does,” says Col @DougAMacgregor, former Advisor to the SecDef.

[Kashif Raza @simplykashif]

IRAN HAS STARTED A FINANCIAL WAR AND IS ATTACKING THE US DOLLAR….. A 52-YEAR RULE IS BEING BROKEN… 🇺🇸USA IS HELPLESS

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions.

Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals.

Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude.

Now compare the alternatives.

Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure.

US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium.

Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place.

The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute.

That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Iran anchor breaks down as he reads the news that Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in US-Israeli attacks

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Why has Pakistan bombed Afghanistan?

Pakistan carried out multiple air strikes on Afghanistan at the weekend, killing at least 18 people.

These included women and children, according to the Taliban.

Let me explain.

#afghanistan #pakistan

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

"Narendra Modi has time to meet online gamers on stage but he never felicitates teachers.

Is it how this country will run?"

- ABHINAY SIR EXPOSED BJP ☠️🔥

Literally everyone is fed up of Modi 🍿

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Israel PM Netanyahu announces the visit of PM Modi to Israel next week.

"Tremendous alliance between Israel and India, and we are going to discuss all sorts of cooperation"

"India is enormously powerful, enormously popular"

[Lala @FabulasGuy]

😹😹😹😂🤣

[Ajay Jadeja @AjayJadeja171]

Sanjay, now show me one current indian cricketer who mocked Pakistan during operation sindhoor. You won't find any, that's the difference and shaking hands is not mandatory

[Richard Kettlebourogh Fans @RichKettle07]

🚨 JAY SHAH BRUTAL PLAN TO ROAST PAKISTAN 🚨

- Before the Ind vs Pak match, Humankind will perform the rap song “Dhurandhar” at Colombo stadium🔥

- BTW, Dhurandhar movie was banned in Pakistan 😆

- Epic Plan by BCCI & Jay Shah, What's your take 🤔

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

I am not excited about this #INDvPAK match for the first time, it has been hijacked by money and politics - Harsha Bhogle

Finally, someone had the courage to speak up. 🔥

[maithun @Being_Humor]

Pakistan team in dressing room after the match 😂 #INDvsPAK