Driving an electric vehicle for months, the Hyundai IONIQ5, BMW iX and now the Kia Carens Clavis electric, has convinced me of the viability of EVs for city and mid-range commutes.
With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
Two submissions. For a high value product like grain based alcohol – most alcohol in India, including so called whisky and brandy, is made from molasses – unclear why grain that is unfit for human consumption should be used as a raw material. That is bound to have a bearing on the quantity, perhaps also the quality, of the alcohol produced. More importantly, if the distilleries were producing more alcohol than they were disclosing to the state excise authorities, it is not just a statistical or yield variance. There would have been clandestine physical removal of non duty paid alcohol from the distillery premises.
Two submissions. For a high value product like grain based alcohol – most alcohol in India, including so called whisky and brandy, is made from molasses – unclear why grain that is unfit for human consumption should be used as a raw material. That is bound to have a bearing on the quantity, perhaps also the quality, of the alcohol produced. More importantly, if the distilleries were producing more alcohol than they were disclosing to the state excise authorities, it is not just a statistical or yield variance. There would have been clandestine physical removal of non duty paid alcohol from the distillery premises.