New Delhi: In baby steps towards deregulation, the government on Thursday allowed oil companies to make small hikes in the price of diesel from time to time and sought to soften the blow by raising t

New Delhi: The government is “seriously” considering revising rates of auto and cooking fuels but no decision has been taken as yet, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said today.
“All price hike or price

Petrol price was on Saturday hiked by 29 paise per litre and diesel by 20 paise after government decided to increase commission paid to petrol pump dealers.

Petrol in Delhi from on Saturday costs Rs

Costlier diesel fuelled inflation to a 10-month high of 7.81 per cent in September, when the price of diesel was hiked by more than Rs 5. Inflation, as measured by Wholesale Price Index, was 7.55 per

Educational institutions and their students are having a hard time due to the prolonged unscheduled power cuts the state is experiencing once again.

Schools and colleges that now need to depend mo

The Congress Working Committee (CWC), which met at party president Sonia Gandhi's official 10, Janpath residence here on Tuesday, backed the new economic reform programmes of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government.

Even as the BJP has strongly opposed the Centre's decision to hike diesel prices and allow FDI in retail, senior party leader and former Union minister Arun Shourie has justified the move saying it was the need of the hour.

Slamming Trinamool Congress, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said steps like allowing FDI in retail sector, hiking diesel prices and limiting cap on domestic LPG could have been taken earlier if

Justifying the recent decisions on FDI and diesel price hike, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said the time has come for 'hard decisions' and asked the countrymen not to be misled by those try

Left and the Right were on the same page on Thursday with its leaders sharing stage to protest the UPA Government's decision to allow FDI in retail and hike in diesel price with both alleging that the