Gold prices on Monday surged an all-time high of Rs29,590 per 10 grams on good investment demand driven by both global and local factors. However, domestic traders are worried over poor offtake owing

State-run oil companies have served an ultimatum to the government that they will raise petrol prices by Rs 9.6 a litre if excise duty is not cut or they are not provided compensation for Rs 49-crore

Disruptions on issues like Telangana, atrocities on Sri Lankan Tamils, sub-quota for minorities, and shortage of fertilisers today marred President Pratibha Patil's Address to the joint sitting of Par

The Winter Session of Parliament beginning on Tuesday is expected to be stormy affair with a determined opposition stacking up ammunition against the government on a range of issues including price

On the defensive after allowing oil marketers to hike petrol price from Friday, the government said state-run fuel retailers were left with no choice given the increasing prices of crude globally and

Unfazed by ally Trinamool Congress' threat of even withdrawing support, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today virtually justified the hike in petrol prices, saying there should be further movement towar

New Delhi: Even as the government is battling inflation on several fronts, state oil companies announced an increase of about four and two percent, respectively, in the prices of petrol and aviation f

New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Saturday termed the decision to increase the price of petrol as a 'cruel blow' and said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was

Onion prices will see a sharp fall by Jan 20, an association of Delhi's wholesale traders said Monday.

This will be because of the arrival of fresh crops, said Rajan Sharma, general secretary of the

New Delhi: The government should raise the price of bio-diesel obtained from the jatropha plant to support the bio-diesel industry's sustainability efforts, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)