India's July crude oil imports declined from a year earlier, while petrol imports climbed to their highest since at least April 2011, data from the oil ministry's Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed on Wednesday.

The US has no evidence that India is running afoul of American sanctions on Iran through the Chabahar port, a top US diplomat said on Tuesday.

India's imports of crude oil have stalled in recent months, but the malaise in the country's energy sector is deeper, with both coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) also soft.

The Japanese have been helping India get several large projects off the ground on reasonable terms

By unbundling GAIL and opening the sector, the government hopes to increase gas use to 15 per cent of the energy mix by 2030 from current 6.2 per cent

In the latest one - 35th GST Council meeting held in Delhi on June 21 - several key decisions, including the extension of the date for filing annual GST returns by two months to August 30 and introduction of a new single-form GST return filing system from January 1, 2020, were taken.

Pompeo's observations warrant attention, especially since India and the US have just announced higher tariffs on some items exported from respective countries in a sort-of tit-for-tat action.

The BSE benchmark Sensex ended down by 491 points at 38,960 due to surge in selling across metal, oil and gas, bank and auto stocks

Speaking at the India Ideas Summit of US-India Business Council here on Wednesday, he also said America is \"open\" to dialogue on trade issues.