Nitin Gadkari also batted for adopting a low-cost broad gauge metro line to connect Pune with other western Maharashtra districts and proposed to rope in private travel operators to operate them.
Gas prices have risen by 15 Afs per kilo and petrol prices have risen by four Afs in the last week, reports TOLO news.
A 22-year-old man injured after the fuel tank of his motorcycle exploded in Punjab's Fazilka has died, police said Thursday.
Siddaramaiah added that the taxes on diesel should be reduced from 74 pc to 50 pc.
M Fuel Kart Pvt Ltd has signed an agreement with BPCL to offer doorstep delivery of high-speed diesel in Delhi-NCR.
Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah on September 13 said that blaming Congress for the fuel price hike is totally false and lame.
MI5 Director-General Ken McCallum said the U.K. could face “more risk” because of the withdrawal of NATO troops and the overthrow of the internationally backed Afghan government.
The price of petrol and diesel remains unchanged at Rs 101.19 and Rs 88.62 per litre in Delhi, as per Indian Oil Corporation.
The daily review and revision of prices is based on the average price of benchmark fuel in the international market in the preceding 15-days, and foreign exchange rates.
Across the country as well fuel prices were cut between 15-20 paise per litre but their retail rates varied depending on the level of local taxes in each state.
The BJP leader further said that in Madhya Pradesh, the VAT is four per cent at Khajuraho, Jabalpur and Gwalior airports while it is 25 per cent at other airports in the state.
In Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad, after revision the CNG will cost Rs.50.90 per kg, and the revised PNG price stands at Rs.30.86 per SCM.
The policy will promote the manufacturing of electric vehicles and their components and facilitate R&D in the areas relating to EVs and battery, he said.
Central Government is very sensitive to this issue (fuel price rise) but it is also very sensitive to see the other responsibilities that we have, Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri said.
UN humanitarian agencies, meanwhile, are warning that they are unable to bring urgently needed emergency supplies into Afghanistan, and are calling for a "humanitarian airbridge" to be set up immediately.
This cut in fuel prices had come amid declining global crude oil prices. The October contract of Brent crude oil on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) was trading at $65.18.
Afghanistan's "acting" President Amrullah Saleh has highlighted the dire "humanitarian situation" in Andarab valley of the northern Baghlan province and accused the Taliban of committing human rights violations in the region. This comes as clashes were reported between the Taliban and resistance forces in the Andarab region. Taliban forces are reportedly facing a challenge from local resistance forces in the Panjshir valley led by Ahmad Massoud, son of renowned anti-Taliban figure Ahmad Shah Massoud.
The Caldor Fire in the northern Sierra Nevada already destroyed dozens of homes, and authorities on Friday closed down a 46-mile (74-km) stretch of Interstate 50, the main route between the state capital of Sacramento and Lake Tahoe on the Nevada state line.
In the national capital, diesel was sold for Rs 89.27 per litre, 20 paise lower than the previous level. Petrol price was at Rs 101.84 per litre.
The Lebanese Red Cross said its teams recovered 20 bodies from the site of the explosion in the northern village of Tleil and evacuated 79 people who were injured or suffered burns in the blast.
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