A few days ago, the Indian Parliament passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, which bans all forms of real money gaming (RMG)—including games involving stakes, betting, or gambling—whether based on skill or chance. This will have severe impact on major companies in this space like Dream11, MPL, and PokerBaazi. The sector…
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As the Government aims for the E27 milestone in ethanol-based petrol blending – similar to Brazil – it must avoid “slips, trips, and falls” on the way About five months ago, on March 25, 2025, we published a blog titled “Why the Government Needs to Reassess Its Ethanol Blending Push”….
Read MoreThe Central Government’s drive to achieve 20% ethanol blending with petrol by the Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2025-26 is impressive, with public sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) already achieving a blending rate of 19.7% in February 2025. For the current ESY (November 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025), the ethanol…
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Ratan Tata was from the Parsi community, which came to India several centuries ago, fleeing religious persecution in their homeland – Iran. Cut to the present. India has a thriving community of Parsis, while Iran has thriving religious persecution. How did it come to this? This is for the Iranian…
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