Tag: Petrol

New Delhi: State-run oil marketing companies continued to cut the prices of key domestic transport fuels — petrol and diesel — well into the second week on Sunday on lower global crude oil prices. According to the Indian Oil Corp data, petrol was priced at Rs 80.05 per litre in the national capital on Sunday. Across […]

New Delhi: With transport fuel prices on a downward trend for over a week, an official source said on Friday that the reductions were a result of falling global crude oil prices and the rupee’s appreciation against the US dollar and that prices were expected to soften further in the coming days. Under the daily […]

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices witnessed an increase across the four metro cities on Sunday, two days after the government announced an excise duty cut on the fuel to give relief to the common man. In the national capital, petrol was priced at Rs 81.82 per litre, up from Rs 81.68 on Saturday, data […]

New Delhi: Transport fuel prices continued on the daily record-breaking upward movement on Tuesday, with petrol inching closer to Rs 84 in Delhi, having already crossed the Rs 91 a litre mark in Mumbai the previous day. In the national capital, petrol cost Rs 83.85 per litre, up from Rs 83.73 on Monday, data on […]

New Delhi: Fuel prices in the country continued their upward movement on Saturday, with petrol costing nearly Rs 91 per litre in Mumbai. In the country’s financial capital, petrol was priced at Rs 90.75 per litre, up from Rs 90.57 on Friday, data on the Indian Oil Corp’s website showed. Petrol prices in the other […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday parried questions on whether the government was considering a cut in taxes on imported crude to bring down the prices of petrol and diesel. “It was not in the agenda,” he said at a media briefing to a question on whether the government was considering any relief […]

Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Sunday announced that the state will reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) on diesel and petrol prices by four per cent. She said that while VAT on petrol was 30 per cent, it was 22 per cent on diesel, she said. With the reduction, petrol and diesel prices will […]

New Delhi: Domestic fuel prices witnessed the steepest hike in the year so far with around 50-paise raise on Friday across the four metro cities. Both petrol and diesel prices have been at their all-time high in the country for around a week now, due to increase in crude oil prices and depreciation in the […]

New Delhi: As petrol and diesel prices hit new highs on Monday, former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the Centre and states must act together to bring petrol and diesel under GST immediately. “Relentless rise in prices of petrol and diesel is not inevitable. Because the price is built up by excessive taxes on […]

New Delhi: Petrol prices across the four metros were stable on Saturday. In the national capital, the fuel was sold at an unchanged price of Rs 76.35 per litre. In Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai too, prices were stable at Rs 79.02, Rs 84.18 and Rs 79.24 per litre respectively. On Friday, petrol prices fell by […]

Panaji: The government is worried about the rising fuel prices, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here on Sunday. “Along with the people, even we are worried when the price of petrol, diesel, LPG, increases. When our party was in the opposition, we had opposed any hike in petroleum because the price of […]

New Delhi: Prices of petrol and diesel fell around nine paise in the four metro cities on Saturday. In the national capital, petrol was sold at Rs 78.20 per litre, down from Rs 78.29 on Friday, data on the Indian Oil Corp’s website showed. In Mumbai and Chennai, petrol prices were at Rs 86.01 and […]

  Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government on Wednesday announced reduction of Rs 1 per litre in the price of petrol and diesel from Friday, in a bid to bring some relief to the people hit by rising fuel costs. Addressing reporters here after the weekly Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, “The state government has […]

Gandhinagar: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday batted for including petroleum products under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime “in people’s interest”, even as he insisted petrol and diesel prices had started plummeting over few days. Pradhan told reporters on the sidelines of an official function here that the Central government had asked […]

Panaji: The Goa government has hiked VAT on petrol by two per cent taking the price of the fuel to Rs 63.43 per litre, a spokesperson said on Saturday. The Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol has been hiked from the existing 15 per cent to 17 per cent. “Even after such increase, petrol would still […]