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Monday, October 13, 2025
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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

Tejaswi Yadav’s govt job promise in Bihar tells us about the real problem in India—unemployment

Dhiraj Nayyar -
India's playing catch up in AI & green tech. It would gain more by focusing on manufacturing to fix the job crisis.

India’s smart cities can’t handle monsoons. We are building flood traps

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

Economy

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Udit Bubna -
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

Defence

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

National Interest

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Shekhar Gupta -
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.

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