Petrol, diesel prices hike after sudden surge in Crude Oil rates

New Delhi: After a gap of 20 days, prices of petrol and diesel surge following the increase in International Crude Oil rates, on Monday.

Prices of petrol and diesel were increased in National capital by 21 paise and 8 paise, respectively.

It is to be mentioned that on December 17, 2018, fuel prices were last increased in India. Since then, petrol and diesel prices have either remained the same or slumped.

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Today

City Petrol Diesel

Delhi 68.50 62.24

Mumbai 74.16 65.12

Chennai 71.07 65.70

Kolkata 70.64 64.01

Yesterday

City Petrol Diesel

Delhi 68.29 62.16

Mumbai 73.95 65.04

Calcutta 70.43 63.93

Noida 68.62 61.86

The hike in Petrol, Diesel came after an increase of over 8% in Brent crude oil rates in the last seven days.

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