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Energy security: Two Indian LPG-carrying tankers coming via the Strait of Hormuz

March 14, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After deft diplomacy between India and Iran this week, two Indian tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have crossed the embattled Strait of Hormuz and are heading home, the media reported on Saturday. The LPG carrier Shivalik is carrying approximately 40,000 metric tons of gas, while Nanda Devi is also […]

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Hospitality sector: Commercial LPG shortage hits hotels, restaurants across India

March 12, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With the government’s restrictions on supply of commercial LPG to businesses because of the ongoing West Asian war, hotels, restaurants, dhabas, and food outlets across several Indian cities have been badly hit and several marriage functions are going without the customary banquets, multiple media reports said on Thursday. And despite […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Huge cost of raging Mideast war starts biting one and all

March 5, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi:  As the raging war between Iran, on one side, and the US-Israel duo plus their Arab allies, on the other, continued for the sixth day on Thursday, its aftereffects are beginning to bite not only the combatants but also other countries having little to do with regional or global politics. […]

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Book Review

Book Review: Branding@Mythology by O.P. Srivastava

February 10, 2026 revoi editor

When I was young, I can recall, my mother once told me that manufacturers advertise because their products are “substandard.” “Have you seen any ad of desi ghee? she asked. That was long ago when India did not have many good choices for a range of products. After the 1991 economic liberalization, privatization, and globalization, […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: India, the US, to work toward interim agreement, BTA, says the WH

February 10, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi:  With President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirming their commitment to a mutually beneficial, balanced trade relationship, ensuring benefits for exporters and workers, the US and India are heading to ink an interim government soon, the media reported on Tuesday. Under the bilateral deal, India will reduce tariffs […]

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The US-India deal: It will not hurt interests of farmers, artisans and MSMEs, says Goyal

February 7, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, who led India’s negotiations with the US, on Saturday said the two countries have finalised an interim trade deal framework aimed at boosting bilateral trade to USD 500 billion annually. Addressing a press conference, he said the framework, concluded late on Friday […]

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Roving Periscope: India to levy 0% tariff on many farm, industrial imports, says Greer

February 4, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: While details of the expected bilateral trade agreement (BTA) between the USA and India are yet to emerge, US Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer has stated that India will lower tariffs on a wide array of American industrial and agricultural goods to zero percent, according to media reports on Wednesday. […]

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Business

Quick commerce: No more deliveries ‘within 10-minutes,’ now!

January 13, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: There will no longer be any delivery of grocery etc “within 10 minutes”  to the customer’s doorstep. With several gig workers’ unions’ requests and after an intervention by Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, delivery platforms Blinkit, Zepto, Zomato, and Swiggy have decided to remove the 10-minute delivery promise from their […]

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Economy: India’s GDP growth surpasses projections, expected to grow at 7.4% in FY26

January 7, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Exceeding the government’s earlier projection of 6.3–6.8 percent, the Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.4 percent in the current financial year (2025-26), ending March 2026, according to the first advance estimates released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Wednesday, The fresh estimates, released by the Union Ministry […]

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Agriculture: India overtakes China, becomes the world’s largest rice producer

January 5, 2026 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said India has become the world’s largest rice producer, beating China, with a total output of 150.18 million tonnes, the media reported on Monday. He said this while unveiling 184 improved varieties of 25 field crops developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research […]

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