P rime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to Indians to reduce travel, hold off on purchase of gold and take to working from home in an effort to conserve fuel and foreign exchange in view of the shortages caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran . Addressing a public meeting, Mr Modi urged the citizens to increase the usage of public transport and electric vehicles, and revive the Covid-era measure of work-from-home . Asking the people to keep the “country above all else”, he said: “Use metros wherever metros are available. Use carpooling to go to places, and use the railways if you have to transport goods. All of this will reduce dependency on petrol and diesel, and thereby cut the dependence on foreign currency.” Stating that the Covid-era measures were the need of the hour, he asked people to revert to the methods developed during the pandemic, including virtual meetings and video conferencing.…