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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: cooking gas

LPG subsidies, free bus rides give women what they want. That precious thing called leisure

Welfare programmes like Ujjwala or Shakti offer women precious moments of social time away from monotonous unpaid work, catering to the needs of the average woman voter.

India should have natural gas storage, says Petroleum-Natural Gas Regulatory Board chairman

India has 5 million tonnes of strategic petroleum reserves but no storage facilities for natural gas yet.

Balloons to store gas: How Pakistan welcomed 2023 during gas crisis

Even residents in affluent neighbourhoods of Pakistan are complaining that they either no longer have gas to cook food.

Modi govt approves one-time grant to state-run fuel retailers for sale of cooking gas

The one-time grant of Rs 22,000 crore will be granted to state-run fuel retailers for selling cooking gas at below market rates, says I&B Minister Anurag Thakur.

Why the kitchen’s become an ‘undisputed place of worship’ & common man suffers ‘price rise’ burn

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Look at petrol, diesel prices – not frothy stock markets – for health of Indian economy

Petrol and diesel prices & higher bond yield curve are better indicators of rising discontent than shares floating on govt-injected liquidity.

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

Hit by mortar shell, but still fighting—BSF heroes of Op Sindoor honoured with gallantry medals

President of India has honoured 16 BSF personnel with gallantry medals for show of exemplary courage in the 87-hour ‘war’ between India and Pakistan that followed the launch of Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.