Petrol, diesel prices today hiked for fourth consecutive day

Petrol and diesel prices have been hiked by 25 paise and 30 paise, respectively. Fuel prices climbed to a fresh all-time high today after OMCs resumed increasing petrol and diesel prices earlier this month.

Petrol is retailing at Rs 101.89 in Delhi and nearly Rs 108 per litre in Mumbai. It costs Rs 102.47 per litre in Kolkata and Rs 99.58 per litre in Chennai. The number of cities where petrol price remains over Rs 100 per litre has also increased after the fresh round of hikes.

In Kolkata, petrol is available at ₹103.07 and diesel at ₹93.87 per litre and in Chennai one has to pay ₹100.01 for one litre of petrol and ₹95.31 for one litre of diesel. 

Prices differ from state to state depending on the incidence of local taxes.