Diesel prices may be hiked by Rs 3-5 per litre, kerosene by Rs 2 and LPG by Rs 50 per cylinder as Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to tackle a record Rs 180,000 crore of losses arising from dipping rupee and surging oil rates.

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

While consumers are still coming to grips with the Centre’s decision to cut subsidised LPG cylinders to six in a year and the rise in diesel price, they have been dealt another blow.

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CM J. Jayalalithaa wrote to PM Monday reiterating her demand to restore kerosene quota of TN, which she said had been downsized by the Centre “without reason or logic”.

“The sudden drastic reduction

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa mounted a scathing attack on the Centre Friday for “consistently reducing allocation of kerosene to Tamil Nadu”.

“While I have been all along pointing out to you that

The repeated increase in the price of petrol and aviation fuel, purportedly due to the rising cost of oil in the international market, has raised some pertinent questions regarding the government’s po