Scroll explainer: Why petrol and diesel prices in India keep on rising (and rising, and rising)

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jul 05, 2020 · 06:30 am

Fuel price hikes: Sonia Gandhi accuses Centre of ‘extortion’; Congress holds protests

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· Jun 29, 2020 · 07:28 pm

Prices of petrol, diesel rise after a day’s break; Congress to stage protests across the country

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· Jun 29, 2020 · 10:19 am

Fuel price increase: Congress to stage protests across the country on Monday

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· Jun 28, 2020 · 11:20 am

Petrol prices increased by Rs 9.21 per litre in 16 days, diesel rose by Rs 8.55

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· Jun 22, 2020 · 07:54 pm

Petrol prices increased by Rs 6.55 per litre in 12 days, diesel rates rose by Rs 7.04

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· Jun 18, 2020 · 12:29 pm

Fuel rates shoot up by Rs 6 per litre after petrol, diesel prices increase for 11th straight day

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· Jun 17, 2020 · 01:00 pm

Covid-19: Sonia Gandhi demands rollback of fuel price increase, says Centre profiting off own people

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· Jun 16, 2020 · 12:10 pm

Fuel prices highest in over a year as rates revised for ninth consecutive day

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· Jun 15, 2020 · 12:19 pm

Petrol, diesel prices increase for eighth day in a row

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· Jun 14, 2020 · 12:31 pm

Petrol, diesel prices rise for seventh straight day as oil firms adjust retail rates with costs

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· Jun 13, 2020 · 12:47 pm

Price of petrol, diesel hiked by 60 paise per litre across India for second day

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· Jun 08, 2020 · 12:34 pm

Covid-19 lockdown: No fuel crisis, enough stocks to last through April, says Indian Oil Corporation

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· Mar 29, 2020 · 03:34 pm

Amid Covid-19 crisis, India increases special excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 8 per litre

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· Mar 24, 2020 · 10:24 am

Petrol prices cut by 12 paise a litre, diesel by 14 paise, a day after hike in excise duty

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· Mar 15, 2020 · 12:38 pm

Fuel prices reduced as crude oil rates drop amid price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia

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· Mar 11, 2020 · 10:00 am

Petrol, diesel prices go up for fourth consecutive day amid US-Iran tension

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· Jan 05, 2020 · 12:54 pm

Centre had benefit of low global oil prices since 2014, but taxes were raised, says Sitaram Yechury

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· Sep 24, 2019 · 06:07 pm

Petrol prices rose by Rs 1.59, diesel by Rs 1.31 in six days after attack on Saudi oil facilities

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· Sep 22, 2019 · 03:54 pm

Wholesale inflation eases to nearly two-year low of 2.02% in June

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· Jul 15, 2019 · 02:43 pm