By imposing a healthcare tax on liquor and fuel, the Uttarakhand cabinet on Thursday increased the price of liquor by amounts between Rs 20 and Rs 200 per bottle and that of petrol and diesel per litre by Rs one and Rs two respectively.
The petrol pumps across Odisha on Friday came out with a stringent rule, No Mask, No Petrol/Diesel /CNG, in a bid to strictly enforce government's order making wearing of face masks mandatory while going out of homes.
With coronavirus eviscerating demand, petrol pump operators on Friday said per pump sales have fallen to less than one-tenth, leading to heavy losses in establishment and employee cost.
Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation's biggest oil firm, has begun the supply of the world's cleanest petrol and diesel across the country with all its 28,000 petrol pumps dispensing ultra-low sulphur fuel a good two weeks before the April 1 deadline. "We have successfully rolled out the supply of BS-VI grade fuel across the country," IOC Chairman Sanjiv Singh said.
A day after the Budget, petrol and diesel prices were further cut on Sunday as international crude oil markets got hammered due to slump in demand because of coronavirus scare in China.
Some aviation experts said Wednesday that they were puzzled after the crew of a commercial airliner decided to dump fuel at low altitude during an emergency landing, causing vapor to fall on schoolyards and neighborhoods east of Los Angeles International Airport.
In a response to a question from TMC MP Pratima Mondal on fuel adulteration, Pradhan said that in established cases of adulteration of petrol or diesel, OMCs have terminated 72 dealerships during the past five years.
The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority also extended the ban on hot-mix plants and stone-crushers in Delhi-NCR till Wednesday morning
The 23-year-old tribal woman who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy was admitted to a government hospital in Bangiriposi.
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday hiked the price of ethanol procured by public sector oil marketing companies for one year starting December.
Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani on Monday announced plans to sell stakes in his flagship Reliance Industries' oil and chemical business to Saudi oil giant Aramco and in fuel retail network to BP plc of UK for a combined Rs 1.15 lakh crore as he looked to make his company a zero-net debt firm in 18 months.
On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) data furnished by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed a decelerating trend as inflation had risen to 5.68 per cent during the corresponding period of 2018.
In comparison to Delhi, fuel rates in bordering states like Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are cheaper, he said.
On Friday, the government had announced a 10 per cent hike in the price of domestic natural gas, that will in turn increase price of CNG, and production cost of electricity and urea.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy.
In IndiaTV's exclusive report, it was revealed that the smugglers purchase fuel from Nepal at Rs 65 and sell it at Rs 80 in Bihar, Rs 5 cheaper than the market rate on the Indian side of the border.
Petrol price cut by 7 paise, diesel by 5 paise per litre
Earlier, the government had said BS-VI grade fuel would be available in Delhi from April 1, 2020.
Gujarat government today announced 4 per cent cut in the VAT on petrol and diesel.
Laced with every possibility to be a game-changer, “artificial leaves” have been developed by scientists that can resolve the long-pending problem of lower availability of fuel. These “artificial leaves”, packed with solar cel
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