Petrol, diesel prices scale record high. Check latest rates in your city
After being stable for a day, prices for petrol and diesel were hiked again on Friday for the eighth time this month.
In Delhi, the petrol price was hiked by 29 paise while diesel by 29 paise, according to a price notification by state-owned fuel retailers. The hike took petrol rates in the national capital to ₹92.34 while diesel stood at ₹82.95 on Wednesday.
The rates continued to soar above ₹100 in some Madhya Pradesh cities and parts of Rajasthan.
MP’s Bhopal had on Wednesday earned the distinction of being the first state capital in the country to see petrol cross ₹100 mark. Petrol in the city now costs ₹100.38 a litre and diesel is retailing at 91.31.
