LPG Cylinder Rates: Cooking gas price hiked by Rs 50. Check revised rate
February 15, 2021 9:01 ISTThe price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) gas cylinders has been hiked again, and the new rates would be applicable from tomorrow (Monday).
The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) gas cylinders has been hiked again, and the new rates would be applicable from tomorrow (Monday).
All lanes in the fee plazas on National Highways will be declared as "FASTag lane of the fee plaza" from the midnight of February 15/16. Those who don't have it yet should immediately buy so as to facilitate electronic payment of fee at toll plazas.
The rate of petrol with additives has crossed the Rs 100 mark for a litre in Maharashtra's Parbhani district on Sunday morning, an office bearer of a petrol dealers' association said.
Fiscal deficit -- the excess of government expenditure over its revenues -- is estimated to hit a record high of 9.5 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the current fiscal ending March 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The board of ONGC at its meeting on February 13 approved creation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary company for gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) business value chain subject to necessary approvals, according to the firm's third quarter earnings announcement.
Among these, 25 general insurance companies witnessed 10.8 per cent increase in their collective premium in the first month of 2021 at Rs 16,247.24 crore as against Rs 14,663.40 crore in January 2020, according to Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) data.
In the national capital, petrol climbed to Rs 88.73 a litre and diesel soared to Rs 79.06, the notification showed. Rajasthan, which levies the highest VAT on fuel in the country, had the highest petrol and diesel prices. In Sriganganagar town of the state, petrol soared to Rs 99.29 and diesel jumped to Rs 91.17 per litre.
Commercial vehicle operators in Meghalaya have threatened that they would go for an indefinite hunger strike if the state government chose to turn a deaf ear on their demand for reducing the prices of petrol and diesel.
Sequentially, the company witnessed widening of net loss from Rs 2,122.65 crore in the second quarter ended September 2020.
According to the national transporter, on a month-to-month basis as well, in first 12 days of February, the railways has overtaken the freight revenue figures in last year by 5 per cent.
Accordingly, oil marketing companies raised the pump price of diesel by year high level of 36 paise per litre and petrol by another 30 paise per litre in Delhi.
The government is readying the blue print of the budget and meetings with different departments are being held to determine their demands and likely revenue collections, said a source in the government.
The IRCTC in a statement said that tourism industry has faced its toughest time in last one year due to the Covid 19 pandemic where in all the hoteliers, transporters, airlines were shut during the lockdown and a lot of people who were engaged in the tourism industry directly or indirectly had to lose their employment.
Sequentially, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which gauges the retail price inflation, declined to 4.06 per cent from 4.59 per cent reported for December 2020.
In a welcome development for those availing family pensions, the Centre has raised the upper ceiling from Rs 45,000 to Rs 1.25 lakh per month, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced on Friday.
Lufthansa has terminated the services of 103 India-based flight attendants after they allegedly sought "job assurance" from the management while the German airlines group had offered them leave without pay option for two years,sources close to the developments said.
The company has already listed USD 1.5 billion bonds under its USD 4 billion global medium-term note programme and USD 500 million green bond issuance on India INX.
Gold price declined by Rs 661 to Rs 46,847 per 10 grams in the national capital on Friday reflecting a fall in global precious metal prices and rupee appreciation, according to HDFC Securities.
ICICI Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising over 2 per cent, followed by Axis Bank, Infosys, HDFC twins, Bajaj Finserv and SBI.
Former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar was granted bail by a special PMLA court.
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