Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to reduce fuel consumption through measures such as working from home as rising tensions in the Middle East continue to drive up global energy prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDuring the Corona period, we adopted work from home, online meetings, video conferences and developed many such systems,\u201d Modi said, according to India Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had also become accustomed to them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday, the need of the hour is that we restart those practices, as it would be in the national interest, and we must once again give them priority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regional tensions have escalated since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, triggering retaliation from Tehran against Israel as well as US allies in the Gulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Strait of Hormuz, a key global waterway through which roughly 20% of global oil shipments pass, has also faced severe disruption due to the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPetrol-diesel has become so expensive across the world,\u201d Modi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is the responsibility of all of us that the foreign exchange spent on purchasing petrol-diesel should also be saved by conserving petrol-diesel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Modi also urged people to avoid buying gold for weddings for one year as part of efforts to reduce discretionary spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He further called on the public to cut edible oil consumption and encouraged farmers to reduce dependence on imported chemical fertilisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe should reduce our consumption of chemical fertilisers by half and move towards natural farming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis way, we can save foreign currency and protect our farms and Mother Earth,\u201d he added. – AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to reduce fuel consumption through measures such as working from home as rising tensions in the Middle East continue to drive up global energy prices. \u201cDuring the Corona period, we adopted work from home, online meetings, video conferences and developed many such systems,\u201d Modi said, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[427,116,65,15,464,229,16,304,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-3631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-fuel-price","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-modi","13":"tag-oil-price","14":"tag-palestine","15":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","16":"tag-united-states"},"yoast_head":"\n