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Feb 26, 2021 09:00 PM IST The governor's announcement on February 26 comes in the face of Assembly elections, which will happen in a single phase on April 6.
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Feb 26, 2021 04:08 PM IST On February 26, the minister said that the increase in petroleum price in international market has affected consumers too.
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Feb 25, 2021 10:39 PM IST When asked if the Centre is mulling to reduce cess or other taxes on fuel to give some respite to consumers from high prices of diesel and petrol, she said the question has put her in "dharm-sankat" (dilemma).
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Feb 25, 2021 04:13 PM IST He, however, said both the centre and the state governments have their revenue pressures and they are required to spend high sums of money to enable the country and the people to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic stress.
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Feb 25, 2021 11:27 AM IST Here is all you need to know about the Bharat Bandh called by CAIT on February 26
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Feb 24, 2021 09:21 AM IST Fuel prices have crossed the Rs 100-mark in towns such as Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar where petrol was priced at Rs 101.59 per litre. The cost of petrol in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh stood at Rs 101.34 per litre.
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Feb 21, 2021 06:28 PM IST The crude prices have been going up in the international market since November 2020, with the Brent oil rate hovering above $60 over the past few days.
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Feb 20, 2021 03:31 PM IST FM Nirmala Sitharaman said there was ‘no guarantee’ that, if the central government forwent its share, the states would not fill the space.
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Feb 20, 2021 11:19 AM IST In a series of tweets, Gehlot targeted the Centre and cleared his stand on the rumours that Rajasthan levies highest tax on fuel prices.
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Feb 17, 2021 07:13 PM IST Price-sensitive Indian consumers are affected by the rising petroleum product prices and it affects the demand growth in an aspirational economy like India, the minister says.
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Feb 16, 2021 11:02 AM IST VAT and cess on diesel in Madhya Pradesh is 28 percent while it is 39 percent on petrol.
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Feb 02, 2021 08:15 PM IST Netizens, while reacting to Subramanian Swamy's post, questioned the use of religion while criticising the government. They also accused the former Union minister of spreading factually inaccurate information.
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Feb 01, 2021 04:05 PM IST With the imposition of the AIDC on petrol and diesel, the Basic Excise Duty (BED) and Special Additional Excise Duty (SAED) rates have been reduced so that the consumer does not bear any additional burden, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while presenting the Union Budget 2021-22.
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Jan 29, 2021 10:06 AM IST During 2014-15 to 2019-20, central earnings through excise duties and cess on fuel have nearly doubled, going up by 94 per cent, and the states’ earnings on the same account has gone up by 38 per cent
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Jan 22, 2021 11:02 AM IST Is it just rising global crude oil price that is causing a spike in petrol and diesel prices here? Read on to know what exactly is the reason for your higher fuel bills
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Jan 18, 2021 09:53 AM IST Diesel prices in the two cities are now at Rs 71.13 per litre in Delhi and Rs 81.87 per litre in Mumbai.
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Nov 20, 2020 03:28 PM IST In Delhi, petrol is now Rs 81.23/litre from Rs 81.06/litre and diesel is up to Rs 70.68/litre from Rs 70.46/litre.
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Jun 25, 2020 09:06 AM IST This is the 19th consecutive price hike by oil marketing companies (OMCs) since June 8
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Jun 16, 2020 10:45 AM IST Sonia Gandhi claimed the Centre was seeking to earn an additional revenue of nearly Rs 2.6 lakh crore “by ill-advised” increase in excise duty and petrol and diesel prices.
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Apr 23, 2020 03:19 PM IST "There may be marginal hike in excise duty to offset revenue loss due to lack of demand. Discussions are being held internally," a government official said.
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Mar 12, 2020 04:03 PM IST Meanwhile, diesel prices per litre in these cities stood at Rs 62.89 in Delhi, Rs 65.84 in Mumbai, Rs 66.35 in Chennai, Rs 65.22 in Kolkata, Rs 65.04 in Bengaluru, and Rs 62.59 in Gurugram respectively
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Mar 11, 2020 05:30 PM IST Meanwhile, a litre of petrol in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata costs Rs 75.99, Rs 73.02 and Rs 72.98 as on March 11. Diesel prices in these cities is at Rs 65.97, Rs 66.48 and Rs 65.34 respectively.
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Jan 30, 2020 05:09 PM IST After a brief pause, oil prices have declined yet again on the back of the fear of the potential economic impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
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Jan 23, 2020 04:38 PM IST On January 23, petrol and diesel prices across major cities in India dropped by 17 paise and 19 paise a litre respectively.
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Jan 16, 2020 03:08 PM IST In Delhi petrol costs Rs 75.55 a litre while diesel is being sold at Rs 68.92 a litre.