 "India's diesel sales rise 7.4% to 2.84 million tonnes in early March")
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian state fuel retailers' diesel sales rose 7.4% in the first fortnight of March from a year earlier to 2.84 million tonnes, preliminary industry data showed on Tuesday.
Petrol sales rose 5.3% from a year earlier to 1.05 million tonnes, the data showed.
(Reporting by Nidhi Verma; Writing by Manoj Kumar; Editing by Tom Hogue)