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Topic: Petroleum

7-year record: UPA raised petrol, diesel prices more than BJP, but global story was different

Nikhil Rampal -
With the price rise becoming a political issue again, here’s a look at how fuel prices have charted the course over the last 17 years.

India’s petroleum demand has crashed by 70% as country has come to a near-halt

Saket Sundria -
Consumption for the entire month could average about 50% below last year’s levels if the lockdown ends 15 April as planned.

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, a petroleum luminary who fired up India’s science & tech pursuit

Sandhya Ramesh -
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, who died on 1 January 1955, was raised by his maternal grandfather, an engineer.

Government duties, not international oil price hikes are to blame for the high fuel prices

Anjali Shukla -
The Modi govt has not passed on the benefits of a steep fall in global oil prices to consumers; instead it raised the excise duty, leading to fuel price hikes.

Off The Cuff with Dharmendra Pradhan

ThePrint Team -
This edition of 'Off The Cuff' saw Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan in conversation with ThePrint's Chairman...

Economic slowdown is a narrative designed by rivals: Dharmendra Pradhan at OTC

Priyamvada Grover -
Petroleum minister insists the economy is not in a state of lapse, shoots down the idea of subsidies to keep petrol and diesel prices in check.
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Opinion

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

Phiroze J Shroff -
If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Dharali floods a wake-up call for IMD, NDMA to buck up—the Himalayan region is vulnerable

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

Economy

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

Neelam Pandey -
New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Defence

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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