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The LPG Distributor's Commission Rose 16 Times Since 2004. After Inflation, It Is Back Where It Was in 2012

October 17, 2026

PPAC’s record shows the commission on a domestic cylinder going from Rs 16.71 in 2004 to Rs 73.08 in 2023. In today’s rupees, the revis...

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Petrol-Pump Margins and E20: The First Dealer Raise in Seven Years, Not Tied to Ethanol, While Oil-Company Margins Followed Crude Into the Red in 2026

October 16, 2026

The average Indian outlet earns about Rs 4.77 lakh a month in gross commission, and the October 2024 revision, a litigation settlement,...

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India Imports 60% of Its Cooking Gas. Four Redesigned Stoves Are Trying to Fix That — Only One Is Actually for Sale.

September 27, 2026

India imports 60 to 67 per cent of the roughly 31 to 33 million tonnes of LPG it burns in kitchens every year, and about 90 per cent of...

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Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan
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Data-led analysis of India's trade, currency and industrial policy. Every article is built from primary official sources, and every figure links back to the release, table or filing it came from.

Sources. DGCI&S TradeStat (imports/exports, HSN-wise) · PIB (government press releases, January 2017 to today, refreshed daily) · RBI (circulars, balance of payments) · MoSPI (CPI/WPI, IIP) · PARIVESH (environmental clearances) · CCIL (bond yields) · BIS (policy rates) · SEBI, NSE/BSE and SEC filings for company data.

Interpretation. Figures carry their vintage and retrieval date; estimates and press-reported numbers are labelled as such; where sources disagree, both are shown. Corrections are made visibly, never silently. Articles are written with AI assistance from the cited sources — AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real material, so verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked primary source.

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