New Delhi (14.12.2020): Everyone loves to fish in troubled waters. And why not? The catch is always easy and abundant. So the NDA government may be missing the point in blaming the opposition for the continuing agitation of farmers of Punjab, Haryana, western UP, and possibly of some parts of Rajasthan. And there is no gain in saying that the agitation is infiltrated by leftists and Khalistanis. That will always be the case. Where there is an opportunity, there will be opportunists. Everyone lov...

A crucial gap in communication has been nagging and disturbing senior government officials. While it was decided in February/March to turn rotting cereals and grains in the state-owned stocks and godowns into biofuel for mixing with fossil fuels to reduce the country's dependence on the latter and save on huge imports bill, the implementation of the idea and plan has been inordinately delayed because the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoP&NG) could not sort out the issue of pricing o...