Fuel prices are back on the boil. Oil marketing companies on Friday increased petrol price by Rs.1.50 a litre and diesel by 45 paise a litre. This is the second straight month where oil marketing firms have raised diesel price to bring down the under-recovery. The government has allowed them to increase disel prices by 45-50 paise a month till underecovery on the product is completely eliminated.

The price of petrol was last revised downward by 30 paise a litre on January 18 but diesel prices went up by 45 paise a litre on the same day.

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New Delhi: Fearing oil refineries will be hit hard by the Finance Ministry's move to change the way petrol and diesel are priced, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to constitute an expert committee to decide on the issue.

The Finance Ministry has informed the Petroleum Ministry that auto fuel needs to be priced at export parity rather than import parity as the 2.5 per cent customs duty was adding to the under-recoveries of the state-run oil marketing companies without contributing any revenue to the exchequer.

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The Government today informed the Lok Sabha that the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has recommended that there is need to ban diesel vehicles in Delhi to prevent th

Despite a straight hike of Rs.5 in diesel prices earlier this year, consumption of diesel in Delhi surged by 15 per cent in 2011-12, reflecting the soaring number of diesel vehicles on the Capital'