Ajay Modi & Jyoti Mukul / New Delhi March 20, 2010, 0:27 IST

The government may link petrol and diesel prices to market prices in 2010-11 and introduce a graded system of subsidy-sharing, with the petroleum ministry taking the view that the Kirit Parikh committee report be made the basis for next year

Shortfall Of Key Inputs, Hike In Diesel Prices Could Negate Effects Of Oversupply
Mithun Roy MUMBAI

CEMENT prices could rise again this month-end, the second hike on the trot in less than a month presaging many more this year as a dearth of key inputs and transportation woes threaten to negate the odds of an oversupply in the next quarter.

MANISH ANAND

Delhi Budget `The housewives are already facing the brunt of price rise and withdrawal of the subsidy will directly hurt them,' said a senior official

Sujay Shetty

Plastics, toys, clothes, utensils, food and other everyday essentials -- in every bill you will see the hike in petroleum prices

Revati Kasture

THE AGE DEBATE FUEL PRICE HIKE IS A GOOD MEASURE TO CHECK FISCAL DEFICIT Buoyant economy can handle hike In a healthy growth scenario, the economy can afford to take some burden of higher fuel prices that reduces the fiscal deficit

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Normal life was hit Tuesday in Kerala as the state woke up to a shutdown called by the workers of the Motor Vehicle Coordination Committee of the Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party to protest the hike in petrol and diesel prices.

The shutdown was supported by the trade associations as businessmen pulled the shutters of their shops down.

Minister Gives No Assurance To Trinamool & DMK On Rollback; NCP Backs Pranab

Ajay Modi / New Delhi February 20, 2010, 0:47 IST

The impact of the recommendations of the expert group on pricing of petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG on the poor and on the price level should be no more than that of present policy and most likely smaller over time. The group has recommended freeing petrol and diesel prices and some increases in prices of kerosene and LPG.

Raghavendra Kamath & Nevin John / Mumbai February 12, 2010, 0:53 IST

One-and-a-half years after signing a joint venture (JV) with Italy's Diesel, Reliance Brands, part of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail, is set to open the first Diesel store in the country, in March.