India won't rule out buying Russian LNG if price is right: oil minister

HOUSTON, Texas -- India is "open for cooperation with all countries in the world" on energy, including Russia, the South Asian nation's oil and gas minister said here during a recent visit, citing its fast-growing energy demand.

Investing in energy projects is "a nonideological, nonpolitical situation," Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told Nikkei in an interview.