Petrol price may come down by up to Rs 1.50/litre
Petrol prices may be cut by as much as Rs 1-1.50 per litre next week on falling international oil rates and appreciating rupee but a one-time hike in diesel and possibly LPG rates is still on the card
Fuel price hike stokes city motorists’ ire
Chennai: Motorists in the city are demanding a rollback in the price of petrol. Frequent hikes in the price of fuel – the most recent one corresponding to the depreciating value of the rupee - was af
Petrol price hiked by Rs 1.82 a litre
New Delhi: Oil firms on Friday hiked the petrol price by Rs 1.82 a litre, excluding taxes, with effect from midnight tonight.
Following are the revised prices of petrol in four metros:
Current Price
Autos do not run on meters, fleece people
Complaints about unscrupulous autorickshaw drivers who fleece passengers by refusing to use the meter increase by the day, especially after the petrol price hike, but the police says, surprisingly, th
CM seeks total rollback of hike
Chief minister Jayalalithaa on Friday said the reduction of petrol price by Rs3.13 a litre was
inadequate and the lowered petrol price was not commensurate with the steep fall in international crude
Oil cos may cut petrol rates by Rs 4 a litre from July 1
Petrol price may be cut by as much as Rs 4 a litre from July 1 as international oil prices fell to their lowest level since December 2010.
State-owned oil firms, which had last month hiked petrol pri
DMK chief Karunanidhi says he never threatened to quit UPA
DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday threatened to pull out of the UPA government over the petrol price hike but later did a quick U-turn, said reports.
Shortly after he made the threat while lead
Punjab abolishes octroi on petrol, diesel
The Punjab government on Monday announced its decision to abolish octroi on petrol and diesel in the state. This will lower prices of the fuel by up to Rs.2.
A state government spokesman said that th
Not possible to decrease prices of petro-products: Pranab Mukherjee
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said it is not possible for the central government to decrease the price of petro-products because huge subsidies are already being given to the oil compa
Pranab to explain need for petrol price hike
A day after the Prime Minister ruled out any roll back in petrol prices, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said he will explain the reasons behind the hike and expressed hope that