A subsidised LPG will now cost Rs 859 per cylinder in Delhi. The price of domestic cooking gas has more than doubled in last seven years. Rates were last hiked by Rs 25.50 on 1 July.
In a rapidly urbanising India, the exclusion of urban poor from energy access will have severe long-term implications on their health and economic development.
New Delhi: Five years after the Narendra Modi government launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) to reduce dependency of households on polluting low-cost...
Air pollution inside houses, primarily due to burning solid fuels, contributed to more than 1 million deaths in 2010, making it the second-biggest health risk factor in India.
Indian LPG consumption in 2020 was at 27.41 million tonnes, 4.3% higher than a year earlier, while petrol demand in the same period plunged 9.3% to 27.27 million tonnes.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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