Country’s petrol and diesel prices continued its northward march on Saturday, after a three-day break, taking its retail rates to unprecedented levels and burning holes in the consumers pockets.
Oil marketing companies raised the pump price of petrol and diesel by 24 paise and 15 paise per litre on Saturday.
With this, petrol is now priced at Rs 91.17 a litre and diesel Rs 81.47 a litre in the capital.
Across the country as well the petrol and diesel prices increased between 20-30 paise per litre depending on the level of local duty at the state level.