New Delhi Despite a wider excise duty difference between petrol and diesel, the group of ministers on fuel pricing led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has ruled out imposing any additional excise duty on diesel cars, which was proposed last year in a report by former Planning Commission member Kirit Parikh that formed the basis for sweeping oil price revisions last year.

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New Delhi Following divergent views among various government wings and user industries, the Ashok Chawla panel on pricing and use of natural resources is likely to drop its proposal for a designated natural gas trading agency to buy the clean fuel from gas producers at contracted prices and sell it to customers at market rates.