New Delhi: Consumers will have to fork out up to 40 paise a litre more for motor fuels in 13 cities that will upgrade to Euro-IV quality. Petroleum secretary S Sundareshan on Monday confirmed that the government was considering a differential pricing for Euro-IV petrol and diesel but declined to say by how much the prices would be higher from Euro-III fuels being sold now.

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Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a new multi-pronged policy to reduce the United States' dependence on oil consumption and create new jobs after the worst recession in a generation.

EVEN as the budget appears to have some benefits for the Punjab farmers, especially in terms of direct delivery of subsidies on fertilisers, easy mobility of grain from one state to another and conservation of natural resources especially groundwater resources, the increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel will result in higher cost of production for various crops, which may not go down well fo

Survey backs decontrol of fuel pricing, shift to direct subsidy for poor through coupons

FREE fuel pricing from the government

New Delhi: Chances of an immediate increase in fuel prices receded with oil minister Murli Deora and FM Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday failing to work out a way to skirt opposition from within the UPA and agree on a solution to prevent state-run oilmarketing companies from going bankrupt if pump prices are to be kept artificially low.

Murli Deora

A young scientist, Dhrubatara Mitra, selected by the Centre

A recent news story on the just-released Kirit Parikh committee report on pricing of petroleum products had a headline suggesting that

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