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Thursday, July 31, 2025
TopicClean fuels

Topic: clean fuels

50% rural, 93% urban households in India use clean fuel for cooking, shows latest govt survey

Comprehensive Annual Modular Survey 2022-23, conducted by NSSO, covered 3.02 lakh Indian households in urban and rural areas between July 2022 and June 2023.

India has ambitious targets to blend ethanol with petrol. But supply remains a major constraint

At G20 Summit, PM Modi called for a global initiative to take ethanol blending in petrol to 20%. But for this, India will need twice the amount of ethanol it produces currently.

5 states didn’t comply with air quality panel’s order to curb pollution — govt report to SC

Report says that while Delhi has partially followed the steps suggested by the air quality commission, UP, Haryana and Rajasthan have been listed in the 'poorly complied' category.

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Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.