The prices of petrol and diesel have remained unchanged for the second consecutive day on Friday, 8 April. Petrol and diesel price today, check latest rates in other cities. Petrol and diesel prices were last hiked by 80 paise a litre each on Wednesday, taking the total increase in rates in 16 days to Rs 10 per litre.
Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 105.41 per litre while diesel rates will cost Rs 96.67, according to a price notification of state fuel retailers. In Gurugram, one litre of petrol will cost Rs 105.86 and Rs 97.10 for one litre of diesel.
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state depending upon the incidence of local taxation. There has been14 increases in prices in 17 days since the ending of a four-and-half-month-long hiatus in rate revision on March 22.
Petrol prices have surged past Rs 100 a litre mark in all major cities across the country while diesel is above that level in several places in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Chattisgarh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
In Mumbai, one litre of petrol will cost Rs 120.51 and diesel Rs 104.77 per litre respectively. In Chennai, the petrol and diesel prices are at Rs 110.85 and Rs 100.94 per litre. In Kolkata, the price of petrol is Rs 115.12 and diesel is Rs 99.83.
In Bengaluru, one litre of petrol will cost Rs 111.09 and one litre of diesel will cost Rs 94.79. A total of 14 increase in prices since the ending of a four-and-half-month-long hiatus in rate revision on March 22. In all, petrol prices have gone up by Rs 10.00 per litre.
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In all, petrol and diesel prices have gone up by Rs 10 per litre each. Petrol and diesel prices have been hiked by 80 paise a litre each for five straight days, totalling Rs 4 per litre – a record increase for any five days since the start of daily price revision in June 2017.
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