Sales of everything from diesel to cooking fuels dropped during April 1-15 from a month earlier
Petrol now costs Rs 90.56 per litre in Delhi and a litre of diesel comes for Rs 80.87
Petrol now costs Rs 90.78 per litre in Delhi and a litre of diesel comes for Rs 81.10
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday demanded that petrol and diesel be brought under the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Delhi Congress leaders and workers staged a protest near the BJP headquarters here on Tuesday against the rising prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
While consumers feel the petrol pinch directly, diesel hurts indirectly, as it is an input in almost all the goods and services we use
Petrol and diesel prices are revised on a daily basis in line with benchmark international price and foreign exchange rates
Petrol price crossed the Rs 99 a litre mark in Rajasthan on Sunday while diesel topped Rs 91 after rates were increased for the sixth day in a row. Petrol price was increased by 29 paise per litre and diesel by 32 paise, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. This pushed retail rates, which differ from state to state depending on incidence of local sales tax or VAT and freight charges, to their highest level. In the national capital, petrol climbed to Rs 88.73 a litre and diesel soared to Rs 79.06, the notification showed. Rajasthan, which levies the highest VAT on fuel in the country, had the highest petrol and diesel prices. In Sriganganagar town of the state, petrol soared to Rs 99.29 and diesel jumped to Rs 91.17 per litre. The Rajasthan government had late last month cut VAT on petrol and diesel by 2 per cent. Despite this, the state has the highest VAT at 36 per cent plus Rs 1,500 per kilolitre road cess on petrol. On diesel, the state levies 26 pe
Petrol crosses Rs 87 mark in New Delhi, diesel at Rs 77.48
Rates were raised for the third time this week
The price hike on Monday came after three days of unchanged rates.
The Indian basket crude oil touched $47.41 a barrel on November 26 as against average crude oil prices of $41 a barrel in the first fortnight of November this year
Sale of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) rose 3.8 per cent in July from a month earlier but is down 65 per cent from the July of 2019
Prices of petrol have remained static at Rs 80.43 per litre for almost four weeks. Petrol rates were last changed on June 29.
Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to Rs 79.56 per litre from Rs 79.23 while diesel rates were increased to Rs 78.55 a litre from Rs 78.27
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state depending on the incidence of local sales tax or VAT
He used a graph to show that prices of fuel prices were low in 2014 under UPA despite high crude cost globally, but the NDA govt raised excise duty on petrol by 259% and on diesel by 820%
AIMTC said Covid-19 and the lockdown have hit the transport sector adversely, and exerting acute pressure on the sector.
Both Kolkata and Mumbai saw an increase of Rs 1.01 each on petrol to Re 1 each on diesel. However, prices in Delhi remained unchanged
Petrol costs Rs 69.59 per litre in New Delhi, Rs 72.29 in Kolkata, while in Mumbai, the petrol is priced at Rs 75.30.