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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: LPG crisis: Is the Strait of Hormuz blockade India's biggest energy security test yet?
Description: The rapidly escalating crisis in West Asia has sent shockwaves through the world's energy supply. Iran has effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow channel through which nearly a third of the world's LPG passes, after joint strikes by the U.S. and Israel killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other leaders. The West Asian country has also hit Israel and American bases in the Persian Gulf, and also targeted oil and gas facilities in the region.
The conflict has hit India particularly hard. The country imports a majority of its crude oil needs an...