Petrol pump staff catch oil tanker from Hassan with over 200 litres missing Mysore/Mysuru: A fuel tanker transporting petrol from Hassan was found carrying less fuel — approximately 200 litres — this morning and alert petrol pump staff refused to refill their underground storage tanks. Devaraja Police and officials from Department of Weights & Measures…
Deepavali surprise: Petrol, diesel to be cheaper
November 4, 2021After Centre, people await State also to reduce rates Consumers happy, but traders not as profit margin reduces Ever-rising commercial LPG prices put hoteliers in soup Mysore/Mysuru: Hours after the Central Government cut the Excise Duty on petrol and diesel, nine BJP-ruled States announced additional reductions in fuel prices. These States include Karnataka, Assam, Tripura,…
Congress members give petrol at Re.1 per litre in city
June 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: In connection with 51st birthday of former AICC President Rahul Gandhi, members of the Youth Congress distributed petrol at Re. 1 per litre at a petrol bunk on JLB Road in City yesterday morning. Led by Congress leader N.M. Naveen Kumar and City Youth Congress President, M. Haris, the Congress activists held this ‘mock’…
To make sense of sensational news covering high petrol and diesel prices
March 2, 2021By Bhamy V. Shenoy Under UPA when crude oil price reached a high of 147 dollars per barrel in May 2008, petrol price in Delhi was around Rs. 50 per litre. On Feb. 1 this year, crude oil price was 56 dollars per barrel and petrol price was Rs. 86.30 per litre. Already in Rajasthan…
Former CM Siddharamaiah condemns hike in fuel prices
June 20, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In a bid to show the Governments at the Centre and the State that petrol could be sold at Rs. 25 per litre, former CM Siddharamaiah, who condemned the high fuel prices, launched a protest organised by former MLA M.K. Somashekar at Chikkamma Nikethana Kalyan Mantap in city yesterday. He symbolically sold petrol at…
Petrol, diesel prices cut by Rs. 2, announces HDK
September 17, 2018Kalaburagi: Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) has announced that fuel prices in Karnataka have been reduced by Rs. 2. With this, Karnataka has joined the league of States including Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal that have also slashed prices. Making an announcement at Kalaburagi this morning, Kumaraswamy said that following increased demand from…
Petrol, Diesel to cost more from today
July 14, 2018Bengaluru: With the State Government issuing an official notification on Friday to give effect to the budget proposals made by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, petrol and diesel will cost Re. 1.14 and Re. 1.12 more respectively from today. Kumaraswamy, who also holds the Finance portfolio, had increased the sales tax on petrol and diesel by…
Petrol, diesel touch all time high as oil companies hike rates
May 20, 2018New Delhi: Petrol price today touched a record high of Rs 76.24 per litre and diesel climbed to its highest ever level of Rs 67.57 as the oil PSUs passed on four weeks of relentless rise in international oil prices to consumers. Petrol price today increased by 33 paisa a litre in Delhi — the…
Excise duty on petrol, diesel cut
October 4, 2017Mysuru: Petrol and Diesel became cheaper by Rs.2 a litre across the country as the Government decided to reduce the basic Excise Duty on the two fuels from Tuesday midnight. Accordingly, the price of petrol stands at Rs. 69.15 a litre and that of Diesel at Rs.56.70 a litre in city.
Petrol, diesel prices come down
June 26, 2017New Delhi/ Mysuru: State-run oil retailers — Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) — had implemented daily revision of retail selling prices (RSP) of petrol and diesel from June 16 across the country. In the last ten days, the price of petrol and diesel has…
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