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[Amit @mot0nut]

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[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

> 5 pregnant women admitted to govt hospital, Kota
> Were advised cesarean deliveries
> Fake injections given to stop bleeding
> Injections only contained water
> All Five mothers died

This country used to be called the “Golden Bird,” and today it has been turned into a joke.

[NDTV @ndtv]

Mohan Naik Jarupla, the Engineer-in-Chief of the Roads and Buildings Department, has been arrested by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in a disproportionate assets case.

Read more: https://t.co/8kHcyXVThq

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This notification is one of the most important fuel documents of the decade.

Let me explain what just happened.

The government charges a tax called excise duty on petrol. This paper says petrol mixed with 22%, 25%, 27% or 30% ethanol will pay zero excise duty.

Zero tax is the government's way of telling oil companies, start blending more ethanol, we will make it worth your investment.

This was coming.

On May 15, the Bureau of Indian Standards quietly notified IS 19850:2026, the official specification for E22, E25, E27 and E30 petrol. So they have mentioned the standard, and then the tax exemption.

But why is the government in such a hurry?

Three reasons;

Reason 1

The programme has been a genuine success on its own terms. India hit 20% blending in 2025, five years ahead of the original 2030 timeline.

Twenty years ago we could barely manage 5%. Crude imports fell, foreign exchange was saved, and over ₹1.18 lakh crore has gone to farmers through ethanol purchases.

For a country that imports most of its oil, every litre of ethanol is a litre of crude oil we did not buy from abroad, making us self-sufficient in our crude oil needs.

Reason 2

There is a supply glut because distilleries went on an expansion spree. India's installed ethanol capacity is close to 20 billion litres a year, with 4 billion more coming, while E20 needs only about 11 to 12 billion litres.

So we have built double the capacity we need. Those plants took loans. They need buyers. The only buyer big enough is the petrol pump.

E20 cannot absorb the supply, so the blend has to go up. The push to E30 is partly climate policy and partly capacity bailout.

Reason 3

Maize has now overtaken sugarcane as the biggest ethanol feedstock, supplying nearly half of all ethanol. The farm lobby behind this programme is now two crops.

But all of this has come at a cost;

When E20 rolled out, regular car owners paid the cost.

A government-funded study by ARAI and Indian Oil found fuel economy dropping up to 6% on E20 depending on the vehicle.

Owners of older cars reported worse.

So even though ethanol is cheaper than petrol. The blending saved money only for oil companies. The pump price you paid did not fall.

On top of that, you got no choice. Most pumps stopped offering plain petrol or E10.

E27 and E30 raise the same questions, with higher stakes. Cars sold in India were made E20-compatible only from around 2023.

There are crores of vehicles on the road before that were never designed for 27 or 30% ethanol. The industry's own target is E30 rollout between 2028 and 2030, which means a huge chunk of today's fleet will still be running when the new fuel arrives.

Brazil is the comparison everyone uses, and it is worth understanding properly.

Brazil runs E27 with nearly universal flex-fuel vehicles. Their cars were built for it over decades. The fuel and the fleet moved together.

So, we are moving the fuel first and hoping the fleet catches up.

So in nutshell, the notification tells oil companies and distilleries to blend more, and it says nothing to the car owners.

Three questions deserve clear answers before E27 petrol shows up at our neighbourhood pump.

1. Will pump prices actually fall this time, since both the ethanol and now the tax are cheaper? Will the zero excise duty gain disappear into oil company margins again?

2. Will older vehicles get a protected option, a pump that still sells E10 or E20 for cars that cannot handle more blending?

3. And will mileage loss be communicated honestly, with numbers, instead of being discovered by drivers at the fuel station?

The ethanol programme is one of the few Indian policies that has been implemented at a break neck pace.

Farmers have earned, imports have fallen, and an entire industry has been built in a decade. That deserves credit.

But going from E10 to E20 strained the system. Going from E20 to E30 with an unprepared vehicle fleet will most likely break it.

30 crore vehicle owners are waiting for answers.

[कुशल मेहरा @kushal_mehra]

This is a classic case of social consequences vs legal consequences. The kid faced the social consequence for using his speech for uttering weird or ridiculous ideas. Him losing is job is a consequence I do not care about. But if he would have been jailed like the Indian state does under "hurt sentiments" logic by imposing Blasphemy laws I have a problem. This is how such controversies have to be dealt with, i.e. at the social level.

[The Lallantop @TheLallantop]

राजस्थान के कोटा में सिजेरियन डिलीवरी के बाद पांच मांओं की मौत हो गई थी. अब जांच में पता चला कि खून बहने से रोकने के लिए उन्हें जो इंजेक्शन दिए गए थे, उनमें ब्लड क्लॉटिंग कंपोनेंट नहीं था. इंजेक्शन में सिर्फ पानी था, जिस वजह से खून का बहना नहीं रुका.

यह सब कोटा के सरकारी अस्पताल 'न्यू मेडिकल कॉलेज हॉस्पिटल' में हुआ. पहले राजस्थान सरकार ने नकली ऑक्सीटोसिन इंजेक्शन के इस्तेमाल से इनकार किया था. लेकिन अब राजस्थान के स्वास्थ्य मंत्री गजेंद्र सिंह खींवसर का कबूलनामा आ गया है.

पूरी खबर: https://t.co/NiH75i7QC6

Kota | Pregnant Women death | Fake Injection

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

Excellent! This is how it should be.

They don’t even an ethanol roadmap for 10 years for Petrol cars and want 40% GST + Insane registration cost and Insurance. Buying an EV or Diesel in hurry isn’t a solution because eventually their number will come too in one way or the other.

Paise ped pe thodi ugte hein.

[Ruhi Tewari @RuhiTewari]

NEET a mess. CBSE a mess. Education sector a mess. Students’ lives a mess. But education minister is busy offering prayers in a bizarre display of sycophancy.

[Citizen Kau @citizen_kau]

This is supposed to be Gadkari’s actual job btw.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

यह बिना लाग-लपेट के कहा जा सकता है कि उत्तर प्रदेश में अधिकारियों के स्तर का भ्रष्टाचार निर्बाध चल रहा है और @myogiadityanath इसे रोकने में असफल रहे हैं। जब IAS अधिकारी गलत करने पर निलंबित न हो कर दो महीने बाद प्लम पोस्टिंग पा जाते हों, तो यही सब होगा।

[Kawaljeet Singh @kawal279]

Delhi Govt has instructed Traffic Police wallas to register FIR for wrong side driving!

Finally!! Mera desh badal raha hai, aage bad raha hai 🫡

[Ranvir Shorey @RanvirShorey]

This behaviour is what’s wrong with our country. Shame.

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Majority of road accidents can be saved if random turns are not allowed for saving fuel of 100 meters drive, driving license is cancelled for driving on wrong side and municipals are held accountable for bad roads

[Dr. Parth Nagda @drparthnagda]

Depression in Indian men rarely looks like crying or sadness.

It looks like something else entirely.

After years of sitting across from men who "just came for stress" — here's what I've actually seen. 🧵

[Himalayan Hindu @himalayanhindu]

Keshav Negi did not get bail & has been sent to jail for 14 days in judicial custody. A 65 yr old poor chef is rotting in jail while corrupt municipal officials who allowed that illegal death trap to run are probably enjoying air conditioned rooms.

— ABSOLUTE MOCKERY OF JUSTICE

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

Watch | #Teachers at a polytechnic college in Dehradun have alleged that a police sub-inspector, accompanied by four others, forcibly entered the examination control office, vandalised property and threatened staff members. The incident occurred a day after his son was caught cheating during a final-year civil #engineering examination.

Details here 🔗https://t.co/TWwQgy89aU

For the complete story, download the TOI App 👉 https://t.co/ogFaRsVinV

[Gargi Rawat @GargiRawat]

Really.. why is an elderly Pahadi man Keshav Negi being scape-goated for the fire in the Malviya Nagar hotel. He didn’t build over 20 rooms when there was permission for only 6. Obviously some nexus in the area too #HotelFire

[Ankit Pandey @iamankitpande]

100 cars waited their turn.

Then these clowns showed up, cut the entire queue, jumped straight to the front, and started laughing.

This is exactly what's wrong with society.
Not intelligence. Not confidence. Just pure entitlement and zero shame.

People who think they are above the rules are the same people who complain when others do the same to them.

Queue jumpers deserve to be sent straight to the back.

What's the right punishment for people who do this?

[Sakshi @333maheshwariii]

India is the only country where IAS officer who was caught taking ₹10 lakh bribe reappointed as Deputy Secretary in the Revenue Department as punishment. You still wonder why people from IIT IIM leave 2-3 crores of packages for UPSC ?

[s @sagrdp7]

This guy came into our lane, blocked the road, asked us to back off. When we refused he got out of his car and tried to hit my sister who was driving. He eventually backed off because he was alone. It was scary, this car is not safe to drive around @OfficialDPRPP @PunjabPoliceInd

[Mr. Mishra @MrMishra]

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माननीय मुख्यमंत्री @vishnudsai जी

ऐसे रोड पर खड़े होकर आम नागरिकों से धन उगाही करने वाले पुलिसकर्मी सिर्फ पुलिस ही नहीं, सरकार की छवि भी खराब करते हैं।

वायरल वीडियो में साफ दिख रहा है कि छत्तीसगढ़ पुलिस का एक अधिकारी रात में अपनी पत्नी और बच्चों के साथ मूवी देखकर लौट रहे युवक को अंधेरे में रोककर परेशान कर रहा है। युवक का आरोप है कि उसे मारा-पीटा गया और दबाव बनाया गया।

सबसे चिंताजनक बात यह है कि वीडियो वायरल होने के बाद कार्रवाई की जगह पुलिस उसके बचाव में उतरती दिख रही है। आरोप है कि युवक जिस मकान में किराये पर रहता है, उसके मकान मालिक तक पर दबाव बनाया जा रहा है ताकि उसे घर से निकाल दिया जाए।

वीडियो में युवक पुलिस के सामने कहता है कि उसे मुक्के मारे गए। इसके बावजूद कैमरे के सामने ही उसके साथ आक्रामक व्यवहार किया जाता है।

अगर वाकई पुलिस का पक्ष सही है तो निष्पक्ष जांच होनी चाहिए। लेकिन अगर कोई नागरिक सिर्फ इसलिए संदिग्ध मान लिया जाए कि वह "लोकल नहीं लग रहा था", तो यह बेहद गंभीर सवाल खड़े करता है। कानून का काम नागरिकों की सुरक्षा करना है, उन्हें डराना नहीं।

@ChhattisgarhCMO @vishnudsai @CGPoliceDept