Amrtansh Arora

Over one-fifth of global oil and LNG exports transit the strait, enabling Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain and Iran to export crude and natural gas. Infographic: Shruti Naithani/ThePrint In 2024, oil flow through the strait averaged 20 million barrels per day. China, India, Japan and South Korea together accounted for 69 percent of the crude and condensate flows. Also Read: Trump dials Modi amid talks with Iran.

“Around 3,000 metric tonnes of waste is dumped here every day…to reduce the waste and reclaim the land, which is also in the heart of the city, and to set up a waste processing facility here, was the idea,” said R Kannan, an Assistant Executive Engineer overseeing the project at Perungudi for the Greater Chennai Corporation. Patch of land at Perungudi landfill in the early stages of reclamation | By special arrangement Kartik manages a workshop set up by his brother.

Amrtansh Arora Chennai/New Delhi: The closer one gets, the more the outer cordon asserts itself. Motion-detecting pan-tilt-zoom cameras peer at the Chennai pavement, flanked by walls so thick they'd stop a charging elephant. This isn't a military site or a glass-and-steel BPO campus. This is India's brisk march into the brave new AI world. It's where your data is parked.