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Modi urges a Covid era WFH comeback to fight soaring fuel costs
Politics
Published on 11 May 2026
A US Iran war shock is driving India back to WFH
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians to revive Covid-era work from home and online meetings while cutting fuel use, linking the call to economic pressure from rising oil prices. Speaking in Hyderabad, he argued that travel and energy consumption reductions could ease the impact of the US-Iran conflict on transport costs, cooking gas, and everyday household spending.
- Modi calls for resuming work from home and online meetings
- Rising fuel and oil prices are squeezing transport and household budgets
- The PM connects the move to wider fallout from the US-Iran war
- Fuel use reduction is positioned as a national economic step
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