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.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
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.
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