Sitharaman also said that there is nowhere in the world do the prices of petrol and diesel remain steady for a particular period of time.
December 2, 2019According to the Indian Oil website, petrol prices in the major metropolitan cities were up drastically by 16 paise/litre.
November 18, 2019Petrol prices in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai remained unchanged at Rs 73.30, Rs 76.00, Rs 78.97 and Rs 76.18 per litre, respectively.
November 13, 2019The fuel prices had seen a sharp rise after the September 14 drone attacks on a Saudi oil facility and a processing plant.
October 7, 2019Petrol price has hit the highest in the year in India while diesel is the highest in the past few months.
September 23, 2019This is the sixth straight daily increase and has taken the cumulative price hike since September 17 to Rs1.59 per litre in case of petrol and Rs1.31 for diesel.
September 22, 2019Prices have been on the rise since May 20, a day after the final phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections ended.
May 28, 2019Oil sector experts said this is impossible given that oil prices change by the minute and hour and there is no question it would remain static for days.
March 10, 2019Transport fuel rates were hiked sharply on Sunday as global crude oil rates continued to climb handsomely following the implementation of output cuts by global oil producers from 1 January.
January 20, 2019The decline in domestic fuel prices comes amid the recent fall in global crude oil prices.
December 31, 2018Cost of the fuel in Delhi fell below the Rs 70 per litre mark on December 24 for the first time in the year since January.
December 29, 2018Maharashtra, UP, Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura announced a Rs 2.50 cut in VAT on the fuels
October 5, 2018The finance minister said the excise duty cut would have an impact of Rs 10,500 crore on the central government's tax revenues.
October 4, 2018Industry experts also attribute the high domestic fuel prices to the high rate of excise duty across the country.
September 30, 2018Political parties have been demanding that the petrol and diesel be brought under GST so that duties on them can come down that will reflect in lower prices at the pump.
September 29, 2018The Opposition parties have been blaming the BJP governments for the sky rocketing prices of petrol and diesel by increasing the Central excise duty 11 times on petrol.
September 26, 2018Similarly, diesel prices also shot up by five paise per litre in Parbhani where it sold at Rs 79.15, said Deshmukh.
September 24, 2018