Prices of petrol and diesel continued to rally for the tenth consecutive day and contact new highs throughout the nation on Thursday, February 18, 2021. After Rajasthan, the retail value of standard petrol hit the three-figure mark in Madhya Pradesh.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Anuppur, petrol right now is priced at Rs 100.25 per litre and diesel at Rs 90.69, information accessible on Indian Oil Corporation’s web site confirmed.
In the nationwide capital, petrol value was hiked by 34 paise per litre and diesel received dearer by 32 paise to breach the Rs 80 per litre mark. Following the most recent value hike, diesel within the nationwide capital is now retailing at Rs 80.27 a litre whereas petrol is promoting at Rs 89.88. In the monetary capital Mumbai, petrol value now stands at Rs 96.32 whereas diesel prices Rs 87.32.
In Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar, petrol climbed to Rs 100.49 and diesel soared to Rs 92.47 per litre. Petrol had hit the Rs 100/litre-mark on Wednesday. It is the very best retail value of the important thing auto gas throughout the nation.
Prices of petrol and diesel range from state to state as taxes are levied on them by each central in addition to the state governments.
The auto gas costs are revised every day consistent with benchmark worldwide value and international alternate charges.
Globally, oil costs rose as a lot as a greenback on Thursday, extending this week’s beneficial properties and hitting 13-month highs, as a chilly snap sweeping Texas and surrounding areas shut at the least a fifth of US refining output and one million barrels of crude manufacturing, information company Reuters stated in a report earlier within the day.
Brent crude climbed 93 cents (1.5 per cent) to $65.27 a barrel by 0219 GMT, touching its highest since Jan. 20, 2020. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 76 cents (1.2 per cent) to $61.90 a barrel, registering its highest since Jan. 8, 2020. Both benchmarks rose about $1 on Wednesday and have gained greater than 6 per cent since their shut final Thursday, the report stated.
Here’s what you pay for a litre of petrol and diesel in your metropolis on Thursday, February 18, 2021:
City
Petrol (Rs/litre)
Diesel (Rs/litre)
Sri Ganganagar
100.49
92.47
Anuppur
100.25
90.69
New Delhi
89.88
80.27
Mumbai
96.32
87.32
Kolkata
91.11
83.86
Chennai
91.98
85.31
Bengaluru
92.89
85.09
Hyderabad
93.45
87.55
Patna
92.24
85.50
Jaipur
96.37
88.69
Lucknow
88.32
80.65
Thiruvananthapuram
91.76
86.27
Source: Indian Oil Corporation