"Bharat is the only country, where prices of petrol and diesel over a representative period have come down in the case of petrol by about 2 per cent or so and diesel by a little per cent instead of going up,” the Union Minister said.
Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday quashed the reports on fuel prices and said there is no proposal to cut fuel prices.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Monday asked a “straight question” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Inflation has broken the back of common people in India. Reports suggest that prices of piped natural gas have increased for the tenth time since August 2021.
Jean-Martin Bauer, Country Director in Haiti for the WFP, told a press briefing on Friday through a video link that the country is facing worrying trends in food insecurity and even humanitarian catastrophe.
Even as the recovery in the aviation sector has been highly impressive with stable traffic at around 90 per cent of pre-Covid levels, Brokerage firm Prabhdas Lilladhar has said the domestic passenger traffic is likely to decline nearly 8-9 per cent QoQ, led by the seasonal nature of Indian aviation industry.
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reports inflation measured through the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) — or price changes in 51 essential items — cumulatively and also separately for five “expenditure groups”. In the first group are people who spend up to Rs17,732 per month and in the last group fall those who spend more than Rs44,175.
Singh further highlighted the issue of the weakening of Rupees against dollar.
CPC Chairman Sumith Wijesinghe said last week that they were losing between 800 to 1,000 billion rupees a day due to selling the fuel at a below-market rate.
It is not the first time that the prices of petroleum products are revised. The petrol prices are constantly rising for the last several days.
