{"id":1570,"date":"2020-06-20T03:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2020-06-20T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T03:01:07","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-raised-again-to-cost-rs-78-88-and-rs-77-67-per-litre-in-delhi-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices raised again; to cost Rs 78.88 and Rs 77.67 per litre in Delhi &#8211; business news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Petrol price was increased on Saturday by 51 paise per litre and diesel by 61 paise a litre in Delhi, taking the cumulative increase in rates to Rs 5.88 and Rs 6.50 respectively in two weeks in the national capital.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol will now cost Rs 78.88 for a litre and diesel Rs 77.67 per litre from Saturday after they were raised for the 14th day in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Oil marketing companies have been adjusting retail rates in line with costs after an 82-day break from daily rate revision amidst the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/coronavirus\/\" title=\"coronavirus pandemic\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>. These firms restarted revising prices on June 7.<\/p>\n<p><b>Also read: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/business-news\/here-s-how-you-can-check-the-latest-petrol-diesel-prices-in-your-city\/story-51ksEknW3nXsYKcGBHEZoM.html\" title=\"Here\u2019s how you can check the latest petrol, diesel prices in your city\">Here\u2019s how you can check the latest petrol, diesel prices in your city<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before that, fuel prices were changed on March 16 but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/business-news\/petrol-price-up-by-rs-1-67-per-litre-diesel-by-rs-7-10-a-litre-in-delhi\/story-D7ew5J9Rz3SPBqyO3eoV5N.html#:~:text=Petrol%20in%20Delhi%20now%20costs,due%20to%20the%20coronavirus%20lockdown.\" title=\" some state governments raised value-added tax \"> some state governments raised value-added tax <\/a>(VAT) or cess to shore up their revenues, which went down during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre levies specific excise duty on the two fuels. On March 14, it mopped up additional Rs 3 per litre from petrol and diesel each to fund its Covid-19 relief measures raising total central levies on petrol are to Rs 22.98 per litre on petrol and Rs 18.83 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) have adjusted fuel against the fall in the retail rates that was warranted because of a decline in international oil prices instead of passing on the excise duty hikes to customers.<\/p>\n<p>International oil prices have since rebounded and oil firms are now adjusting retail rates in line with them.<\/p>\n<p><i>(With agency inputs)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--   section:business-news mainSection:business-news-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/business-news\/petrol-diesel-prices-raised-again-to-cost-78-88-and-rs-77-67-per-litre-in-delhi\/story-9W53He0XU1H4yerxxLhEVO.html\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol price was increased on Saturday by 51 paise per litre and diesel by 61 paise a litre in Delhi, taking the cumulative increase in rates to Rs 5.88 and Rs 6.50 respectively in two weeks in the national capital. Petrol will now cost Rs 78.88 for a litre and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/delhi-lockdown-covid-19-day-42_ea2b1328-b29c-11ea-8315-f58cec6734ed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}