
The government on Thursday took the first major step towards the deregulation of diesel prices saying oil companies will be allowed to decide the prices and hike the prices in small amounts from time to time. ...

08:03 AM, Jan 18, 2013

Sources said that the price of diesel would be hiked by 40-50 paise per litre every month, and the move would be effective from Friday. ...

11:59 PM, Jan 17, 2013

The government on Thursday allowed oil companies to increase diesel price by 50 paise per litre every month. ...

11:44 PM, Jan 17, 2013

Oil firms allowed to hike diesel price by 50 paise/litre per month as the government makes first move towards diesel decontrol. ...

09:15 PM, Jan 17, 2013

Hours after the Cabinet on Thursday refused to take a call on increasing the price of diesel, kerosene and LPG, putting the onus on oil marketing companies to decide on diesel prices from time to time, sources said that the price of diesel would be hiked by 40-50 paise per litre every month, and the move would be effective from Friday. ...

08:00 PM, Jan 17, 2013

Automakers on Thursday said the government decision to allow "small" hikes in diesel prices was a step in the right direction although it could have some impact on sales. ...

07:29 PM, Jan 17, 2013

The CPI on Thursday castigated the government for decontrolling diesel prices, saying Congress-led UPA would pave to pay the political price for such "anti-people" decisions. It also demanded increasing the number of LPG cylinders per family to 12, instead of nine as decided by the government on Thursday. ...

06:40 PM, Jan 17, 2013

The government will not factor the impact of diesel price hike by oil companies while computing the oil subsidy bill for the current fiscal, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday. ...

05:52 PM, Jan 17, 2013

The BJP on Thursday criticised the government's decision to allow oil marketing companies to hike diesel rates and demanded its rollback, saying it will have a cascading effect on prices. The opposition party also termed the raising of cap on LPG cylinders from six to nine as a "farce". ...

05:39 PM, Jan 17, 2013

Travel in Delhi Metro might get costlier five months down the line with a Fare Fixation Committee appointed by the Government expected to come out with its recommendations on fare hike by the middle of this year. ...

05:04 PM, Jan 17, 2013

The government on Thursday took the first step towards diesel decontrol and allowed the oil companies to raise prices from time to time, but kept the mechanism to be followed unclear. ...

04:42 PM, Jan 17, 2013

Katie Price has reportedly tied the knot for the third time with her part-time stripper boyfriend Kieran Hayler. ...

02:56 PM, Jan 17, 2013

The government on January 17 approved a 50 per cent reduction in the reserve price of spectrum used by CDMA mobile operators. "The Cabinet has approved 50 per cent reduction in CDMA spectrum (reserve) price which was fixed earlier at Rs 18,200 crore (pan India 5MHz)," Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said. ...

01:52 PM, Jan 17, 2013

The Cabinet on Thursday refused to take a call on increasing the prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG and instead put the onus of oil marketing companies to decide on diesel price from time to time. ...

01:31 PM, Jan 17, 2013

A decision on raising diesel and LPG prices is expected on Thursday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to take a call on raising diesel and LPG prices at the cabinet meet on Thursday. ...

10:15 AM, Jan 17, 2013

The government is "seriously" considering revising rates of LPG and diesel prices but no decision has been taken as yet, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Wednesday. "All price hike or price reduction...proposals are under serious consideration. We have not taken any decision," he told reporters in the national capital. ...

01:10 PM, Jan 16, 2013

India's inflation has come off a peak but is still high, Bloomberg quoted the Reserve Bank of India Governor D Subbarao as saying, a comment that is likely to cool expectations for a rate cut later this month. "When growth is slowing down you can stimulate the economy either by monetary easing or by fiscal stimulus, but both monetary and fiscal side have no room for stimulus. So that is...

11:21 AM, Jan 16, 2013

Citing non-allocation of cheaper natural gas from the Centre, GSPC Gas Company (GGC) on Tuesday hiked the gas prices in various categories. GGC, a subsidiary of the state-run Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), has raised CNG prices from Rs 50.20 per kg to Rs 56.90 per kg, while piped cooking gas prices go up from Rs 18.18 to Rs 21.50 (Rs 24.73 with taxes) per standard cubic metre (pscm), a...

02:58 AM, Jan 16, 2013

Petrol price was on Tuesday evening hiked by about 35 paise per litre in line with firming raw material cost. Petrol will cost Rs 67.56 per litre in Delhi with effect from midnight Tuesday, industry sources said. ...

11:18 PM, Jan 15, 2013

Country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India today said it will increase prices of its vehicles across models by up to Rs 20,000 from tomorrow to offset pressure of adverse currency fluctuation. ...

02:59 PM, Jan 15, 2013