Assam Fuel Price

Ten BJP-ruled states - Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Karnataka, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand - announced additional cuts in petrol and diesel prices.

The entire opposition on Monday staged a walkout on the first day of the Budget Session of the Assam assembly after the Speaker refused to allow discussion on the issue of price rise of fuel and other essential commodities.

The second part of the Budget session of Parliament was off to a stormy start today - the Rajya Sabha was adjourned at 10.02 am, minutes after Question Hour began - as Congress MPs raised slogans demanding a debate over the rise in fuel prices in the past many weeks. The Upper House then got adjourned three more times before calling it a day in the...

With the Assam election two months away, the main opposition Congress today launched agitations across the state against rising fuel prices. The party alleged the BJP government has been "looting" the public in the name of fuel taxes.

In poll-bound Assam where after the BJP took a clear lead in the build-up for the election two months away through public meetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah with several new projects and even a sharp cut of fuel prices, the main opposition Congress is catching up with its first campaign - "Assam Bachao Yatra". Cong...

In poll-bound Assam where after the BJP took a clear lead in the build-up for the election two months away through public meetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah with several new projects and even a sharp cut of fuel prices, the main opposition Congress is catching up with its first campaign - "Assam Bachao Yatra". Cong...

The Assam government today said that it has cut petrol and diesel prices by Rs 5 and reduced the duty on liquor by 25%. The new rates will be effective from midnight today. The announcement comes months ahead of the state assembly election and especially at a time when fuel prices have bee touching new highs across the country.

The Assam and Meghalaya governments have increased the taxes on petrol and diesel from today even as global crude oil prices hit record low.

At a key meeting of the BJP today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a blistering attack on the Congress and BJP chief Amit Shah declared that the party will rule for another 50 years. "PM Modi told party workers that we must strengthen the party at booth-level and we must win in every booth," Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the media a...

For over a week, more than 1,000 trucks have been stranded on the Assam-Tripura border. Many of them, like 37-year-old Vikram Das's truck, are carrying essential supplies like food, medicines and fuel in to the landlocked state. But it's not an agitation that holding these trucks up. It's just rain.

Petrol and diesel prices were on Wednesday hiked in seven states including West Bengal and Maharasthra and that of domestic LPG in six states as state-owned oil firms recalibrated rates to reflect changes in local levies. The price hikes are over and above the Rs 0.70 per litre increase announced on July 24. The tax-adjustment also means that fuel...

Ten BJP-ruled states - Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Karnataka, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand - announced additional cuts in petrol and diesel prices.

The entire opposition on Monday staged a walkout on the first day of the Budget Session of the Assam assembly after the Speaker refused to allow discussion on the issue of price rise of fuel and other essential commodities.

The second part of the Budget session of Parliament was off to a stormy start today - the Rajya Sabha was adjourned at 10.02 am, minutes after Question Hour began - as Congress MPs raised slogans demanding a debate over the rise in fuel prices in the past many weeks. The Upper House then got adjourned three more times before calling it a day in the...

With the Assam election two months away, the main opposition Congress today launched agitations across the state against rising fuel prices. The party alleged the BJP government has been "looting" the public in the name of fuel taxes.

In poll-bound Assam where after the BJP took a clear lead in the build-up for the election two months away through public meetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah with several new projects and even a sharp cut of fuel prices, the main opposition Congress is catching up with its first campaign - "Assam Bachao Yatra". Cong...

In poll-bound Assam where after the BJP took a clear lead in the build-up for the election two months away through public meetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah with several new projects and even a sharp cut of fuel prices, the main opposition Congress is catching up with its first campaign - "Assam Bachao Yatra". Cong...

The Assam government today said that it has cut petrol and diesel prices by Rs 5 and reduced the duty on liquor by 25%. The new rates will be effective from midnight today. The announcement comes months ahead of the state assembly election and especially at a time when fuel prices have bee touching new highs across the country.

The Assam and Meghalaya governments have increased the taxes on petrol and diesel from today even as global crude oil prices hit record low.

At a key meeting of the BJP today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a blistering attack on the Congress and BJP chief Amit Shah declared that the party will rule for another 50 years. "PM Modi told party workers that we must strengthen the party at booth-level and we must win in every booth," Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the media a...

For over a week, more than 1,000 trucks have been stranded on the Assam-Tripura border. Many of them, like 37-year-old Vikram Das's truck, are carrying essential supplies like food, medicines and fuel in to the landlocked state. But it's not an agitation that holding these trucks up. It's just rain.

Petrol and diesel prices were on Wednesday hiked in seven states including West Bengal and Maharasthra and that of domestic LPG in six states as state-owned oil firms recalibrated rates to reflect changes in local levies. The price hikes are over and above the Rs 0.70 per litre increase announced on July 24. The tax-adjustment also means that fuel...