"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.
Before Saturday's price hold, fuel prices increased on Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week. Petrol and diesel prices also increased on four days last week.
In Mumbai, fuel price reached a new high of Rs 103.08 per litre on Friday. Diesel price also increased in the city by 30 paisa per litre to reach Rs 95.14 a litre, the highest among metros.
The Congress has been critical of the Centre over the rise in the furl prices in the last several months.
In the city of Mumbai, where petrol prices crossed Rs 100 mark for the first time ever on May 29, the fuel price reached new high of Rs 102.04 per litre on Friday.
This is the second consecutive increase in fuel prices in as many days. Petrol and diesel prices had risen up to 29 paise per litre even on Monday.
