LPG shortage: Orders from restaurants start recovering, says MagicpinRestaurants impacted by commercial LPG cylinder shortages are recovering. Eateries are adjusting menus and adopting alternative cooking met...
15 Mar, 2026, 11.19 AM IST
LPG 'crunch' eats into eateries' business, coal price spikes; anti-hoarding raids in Uttar Pradesh, KarnatkaIran war LPG crisis: The West Asia conflict has impacted the supply of crude oil and petroleum products, following the closure of the Strai...
14 Mar, 2026, 07.47 PM IST
Kerosene stoves are quietly resurrecting from their graves amid LPG Crisis; How to safely use the old ones at homeLPG shortage crisis: The Union government has announced the reintroduction of kerosene and coal as temporary cooking options to ease the pr...
13 Mar, 2026, 02.09 PM IST
Chinese villagers struggle for heat as gas subsidies fadeVillagers in northern China are struggling to afford heating bills after government subsidies for natural gas systems, implemented to comba...
11 Jan, 2026, 09.44 AM IST
Delhi to extend Ujjwala Yojana to slums to curb pollution, improve public healthThe Delhi government is extending the Ujjwala Yojana to slum clusters to combat pollution. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has directed official...
08 Nov, 2025, 10.26 PM IST
Coal on the stove? We were just getting over gold from potatoes idea: Himanta Biswa Sarma mocks Rahul GandhiAssam CM ridicules Rahul Gandhi for his remarks about coal and Gamocha. Sarma mocks Gandhi for turning potatoes into gold and now adding co...
25 Jan, 2024, 05.58 PM IST
Asthma study sparks debate about safety of cooking with gasThe authors of the study said their findings suggested that around 650,000 US children would not have developed asthma if their homes had e...
12 Jan, 2023, 12.10 PM IST
Germany's Russian gas crisis sparks coal rushIn Berlin, 5-6,000 homes still heat with coal -- only a fraction of the city's 1.9 million homes, say municipal authorities.
17 Aug, 2022, 09.17 AM IST
How to make rural India switch to cleaner cookstovesThree billion people still rely on traditional cookstoves that use solid fuels such as wood or coal, according to researchers from the Duke...
21 May, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
Niti Aayog pushes for methanol use as cooking fuelThe Aayog is in talks with the states of Uttar Pradesh and Assam over distribution of 20,000 and 50,000 gas stoves, respectively, powered b...
17 Dec, 2018, 06.09 PM IST
Under Ujjwala, BPL families will get LPG stoves at Rs 990The BPL families had to pay Rs 250 for connecting pipe, installation and consumer booklet. In addition, they had to spend as much as Rs 2,0...
06 May, 2016, 12.50 PM IST
Beijing to end coal usage by 2020 to reduce smogAn official of the Beijing's Environmental Protection Bureau said boosting efforts to cut air pollution in northern China, especially winte...
12 Jan, 2016, 01.22 PM IST
- Air pollution biggest health risk, says WHO
Air pollution has emerged as the world’s single largest environmental health risk, having caused seven million deaths in 2012 — 80% of whic...
26 Mar, 2014, 05.32 AM IST
SootSwap: An app that enables remote verification of stove usageSwitching to clean-burning cook stoves can reduce the amount of firewood used in open fires, as well as the amount of smoke indoors and out...
20 Jul, 2013, 04.33 AM IST
- BJP protests fuel price hike
A banner carrying a picture of Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was put up behind the stall where BJP activists tried to...
15 Sep, 2012, 07.09 PM IST
- Govt may give free LPG stoves
The government may give poor people LPG stoves free of cost as part of its blueprint to expand domestic cooking gas coverage to at least th...
09 Sep, 2009, 04.42 PM IST
- Indoor pollution kills one person every 20 sec!
The world only worries about outdoor smog and emissions. In reality, however, indoor pollution kills 1.6 m persons every year.
11 Jan, 2008, 06.54 PM IST