With the shortage of cooking gas, breakfast restaurants – called darshinis in the south Indian city – have stopped making thosais and vadais, which need high heat. We can’t go even one day without cooking gas,” said Ashwini Ganesh, 35. With the hostilities intensifying there, Indians are experiencing cooking gas shortages in homes, hotels, canteens and community kitchens. The LPG tankers carry a total of about 270,000 tonnes of cooking gas, enough to fill around 1.9 million domestic cooking gas cylinders – the equivalent of three days of consumption. More than 330 million Indian households are registered for cooking gas.

Source: The Star March 21, 2026 15:59 UTC