Tag: Rising Fuel Prices

Bhubaneswar: As petrol and diesel prices continue their upward move, Odisha and Centre are at loggerheads over tax cuts to ease the burden of higher prices. Petrol and diesel prices today touched their record highs after increasing for the eighth consecutive day. Union Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan said the Centre had slashed excise duty on […]

New Delhi: A united Opposition, led by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Monday staged a foot march here in support of a nationwide shutdown protest or ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by his party against rising fuel prices. The 1.8-km march was held between Rajghat and Zakir Husain College. Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal […]

Berhampur: Amid rising fuel prices and hue and cry over global warming, a student of Berhampur government ITI, Aditya Behera has developed a battery-operated bicycle which can run for 20 kilometres after just 3 hours of charging. Aditya, who pursues fitter course at the ITI, got inspiration for developing the bicycle by watching YouTube videos. […]

New Delhi: Petrol price on Monday was hiked by 33 paise per litre and diesel by 58 paise to take retail rates to record high as the oil companies increased prices for the 16th day in a row. In 16 days, petrol price has been hiked by Rs 8.3 per litre and diesel by Rs […]

New Delhi: Diesel has become the most expensive auto-fuel in the country overtaking petrol for the first time in a long while as the oil marketing companies on Wednesday raised its pump prices by 48 paise while keeping the price of the other fuel unchanged. In the Capital, diesel is now priced at Rs 79.88 […]