Hyderabad: Making light of the BJP leaders claims on fuel price reductions and demands to the State government to slash VAT, Industries Minister KT Rama Rao on Sunday said it was Central Government, which was responsible for rising fuel prices. He further suggested that if the ‘cess’ was scrapped, fuel prices would automatically fall down […]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has once again praised India for reducing fuel prices with the help of “discounted oil” from Russia, saying this is what his government was working to achieve with the help of an “independent foreign policy.” The Indian government on Saturday cut excise duty on petrol by a record […]
New Delhi: A day after the reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel, the Congress on Sunday said that the step was a political gimmick and not relief to people, as it was like ‘three steps forward and two steps back’. Addressing a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Gaurav Vallabh said that the BJP […]
Hyderabad: The controversy over fuel prices continued on Thursday too with Minister K T Rama Rao hitting back at the Centre reminding about the collection of cesses thereby depriving the States of their rightful share. The war of words on the social media platform was triggered when union Petroleum and Natural Minister Hardeep Singh Puri […]
Hyderabad: What was supposed to be a platform for discussing the prevalence of Covid in the country turned out to be a platform to point accusing fingers at the States, for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. He used the interaction with the Chief Ministers to literally arm twist the non-BJP ruled States on […]
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has increased fuel prices to a record high. With the latest price hike on Monday, the price of Octane 92 petrol rose by 33.1 per cent to a record 338 Sri Lankan rupees ($1.04) a litre, and the price of auto diesel increased by 64.2 per cent […]
Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao has accused the union Government of misleading the nation over rising fuel prices, citing Russia-Ukraine war, when the fact was that India imported less than one per cent crude oil from Russia. India imports majority of petroleum products from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, UAE and United States. While, there […]
New Delhi: The state-run oil marketing companies on Tuesday raised key transport fuel prices for the 13th time in the last 15 days. Consequently, in the past 15 days, petrol prices have increased by Rs 9.40 per litre in the national capital. These prices were revised for the very first time on March 22 after […]
Hyderabad: Fuel prices went up on Saturday, the 10th time in 12 days, taking the petrol price in Hyderabad to Rs.116.33 per litre, while that of diesel went up by 87 paise to Rs.102.45. The hike in petrol price on Saturday was by 91 paise, taking the petrol prices up by Rs.8.13 in the city […]
Sheohar: A person hailing from Bihar’s Sheohar district has come up with a unique protest against the fuel price hike across the country by riding a horse while going to work. The man, who works with the state electricity department, collected electricity bills from people while riding a horse from one village to another, instead […]
