Topic: Trucks
With trucks sitting idle, India’s fuel demand set to hit 5-year low in 2020-21
Overall oil-product consumption including transport fuels in the financial year through March 2021 will be around 90% of last year — the lowest level since 2016.
Logistics giant VRL to scrap 15% of its fleet, not buy new trucks in lost year of pandemic
VRL operates about 5,000 vehicles, including tankers, cranes and buses, and has identified some 700 low capacity trucks for possible scrappage.
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Indian women in police shouldn’t be restricted to ‘pink squads’. Put uniforms to better use
The fandom built around women in uniform conceals more than it reveals. Women constables don't have the same powers as their male colleagues do.
Gautam Adani’s food venture Adani Wilmar is best-performing IPO in Asia
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Defence
What’s Combined Military Forces-Bahrain? US-backed coalition India joined on Quad sidelines
India is 35th member of the maritime counterterrorism partnership that also includes Pakistan, Australia, Bahrain, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany and Greece, among others.
Mandir or Masjid? New surveys not needed, just acceptance of truth & move towards reconciliation
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.