Petrol and diesel prices across major cities of the country were reduced on Tuesday after remaining unchanged for four consecutive days owing to reduction in the international crude prices. As per data available on Indian Oil Corporation\u2019s (IOC) website on Tuesday, price of one litre of petrol in Delhi was cut by 22 paise to \u20b990.56 while diesel was reduced by 23 paise to \u20b980.87. In Mumbai, petrol is retailing at \u20b999.98 after a 21 paise decrease over Monday\u2019s price, while diesel costs \u20b987.96 which is 24 paise less than yesterday\u2019s price.<\/p>\n
Fuel prices were last revised on March 25, after they remained unchanged for 24 days consecutive days at record highs. On March 25, petrol prices fell by 21 paise per litre and diesel prices were reduced by 20 paise. The prices of petrol and diesel are different in different states due to the taxes that are levied on them by both central as well as state governments along with freight charges. These taxes make up for 60 per cent of the retail selling price of petrol and over 54 per cent of diesel. The fuel prices are generally revised on a daily basis in tandem with the benchmark international price and foreign exchange rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Petrol and diesel prices across major cities of the country were reduced on Tuesday after remaining unchanged for four consecutive days owing to reduction in the international crude prices. As per data available on Indian Oil Corporation\u2019s (IOC) website on Tuesday, price of one litre of petrol in Delhi was cut by 22 paise to \u20b990.56 while diesel was reduced by 23 paise to \u20b980.87. In Mumbai, petrol is retailing at \u20b999.98 after a 21 paise decrease over Monday\u2019s price, while diesel costs \u20b987.96 which is 24 paise less than yesterday\u2019s price. Fuel prices were last revised on March 25, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}