Parrikar was a simple person and a leader with ambition, ingenuity and disposition to battle it out, someone who enjoyed acceptance from all sections of the BJP cutting across party lines.

India had four terminals receiving LNG last year, taking in 21 million to 23 million tonnes of the super-chilled fuel.

Over 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh, where they joined roughly 200,000 others already sheltering there.