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Sources said under the norms of the German central bank, each drop of oil bought from US-sanctioned Iran is being certified before being supplied to India.

The London-headquartered group recognises the need to step up its pace in India but the brothers have still to take the bit between their teeth.

India hopes to resolve the oil payments row with Iran at a meeting in Tehran this week, Oil Secretary S Sundareshan said. \"We are in discussions with NIOC to resolve the issue,\" he said.

After RBI abolished regional payment mechanism for Iranian crude imports, SBI, too, refused to issue fresh letter of credits - a guarantee to supplier for the payment upon delivery.

A senior government official said on Tuesday that NIOC (National Iranian Oil Co) is ready to accept payments from Indian oil firms through the EIH Bank in Germany.

The Reserve Bank of India is looking for an alternative payment mechanism to enable oil firms to bring home the contracted Iranian oil imports for January.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will skip the summit on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan- Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline at Ashgabat.

According to Wikileaks, a source confided to a US diplomat in June 2009, that he viewed near-term implementation of the Iranian-Pakistani gas link project as \"very unlikely\".

Some $10 billion worth of export deals were sealed during President Barack Obama's visit but, for Indian industry, there was a bigger takeaway: Those greenbacks were not - as one Indian head honcho put it - handouts, but from a hand outstretched. India Inc's CEOs spell out the gains.

Petropars has offered the state-owned oil major and the Hinduja Group 40 per cent stake in the development of Phase-12 of the giant South Pars gas field.

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