Agencies
New Delhi, June 29:
In another hike this month, petrol prices got costlier by 34-35 paise and diesel by 28-30 paise on Tuesday after a day’s hiatus, taking fuel prices to another record highs in the country. The fuel prices remained unchanged on Monday.
In Delhi, petrol hit an all-time high of ₹98.81 a litre while diesel retailed at ₹88.18 per litre. The recent revision has taken the petrol price near ₹105 in Mumbai as it is retailing at ₹104.90 in the city and diesel at ₹96.72 a litre.
The price of petrol in Chennai is at ₹99.80 per litre and that of diesel at ₹93.72 per litre. In Kolkata, the latest increase pushed the petrol price to ₹98.64 per litre and diesel to ₹92.03 per litre in West Bengal’s capital.
The unidirectional upward movement since May 4 saw petrol already crossing ₹100 mark in various cities across the country, particularly in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha, Manipur, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
Buying petrol in major Indian cities such as Mumbai costs almost twice as mu