The federal government kept petrol and high-speed diesel prices unchanged for July 26 and 27, citing the non-publication of Platts prices over the weekend, a key international benchmark used to calculate local fuel rates. The decision means the price increase announced a day earlier remains in effect through the weekend without further revision. Petrol and high-speed diesel prices had been...
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The savings we refuse to collect
A Senate committee sits down, does the arithmetic, and arrives at a number most governments would treat as urgent: four to five trillion rupees a year, sitting unclaimed, simply because the federal government still runs ministries the Constitution told it to hand over in 2010. That is not a rounding error. It is close to a fifth of the federal...
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