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Mahanagar Gas cuts PNG supply by 50 pc; biz hit Mumbai : Delivering another shock, the Mahanagar Gas Ltd. on Saturday mandated all commercial users to draw only 50 pc of their piped natural gas (PNG) supply with a warning of steep fines and abrupt cut in connection for violators, sending shockwaves in the industry.   This comes barely 48 hours after its first missive (March 12) imposing a 20 per cent  cut in PNG offtake by commercial users, which hit the bakery industry hard, amid...

Soon, Mumbai to starve of vada-pav, pav-bhaji Mumbai: The city of dreams fueled by vada-pav and pav-bhaji could soon face a nightmarish food crunch. Amid the ongoing commercial LPG crisis, Mumbai’s piped natural gas (PNG) supplier Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) has imposed a 20pc cut in gas offtake by bakeries, forcing scale down of production of laadi-pav, breads and other bakery staples that feed millions daily, plus an ominous price hike soon. The MGL directive follows a central order (March...

Dark shadow of shut down on Bhendi Bazar during Ramzan Mumbai : Like a middle-age crisis, the Middle-East War has sparked a mid-Ramadan panic in Mumbai’s famed Ramzan street-food markets of Mohammed Ali Road and its surroundings, thanks to the near-invisibility of commercial LPG cylinders.   Barely a week before the grand build-up for Eid-ul-Fitr, there is concern among the hundreds of eateries, wayside stalls, seasonal carts and traditional hoteliers and disappointment among the lakhs of...