In last eight months, the petrol price in Delhi has shot up by Rs 7.61 pasie and in Mumbai by Rs 7.13 paise. This year on January 1, the price of gasoline in the national capital was Rs 69.97 and in the financial capital Rs 77.87.   

There was another similar incident in Mumbai in June this year, when a fire broke out at Beaumonde Towers in Prabhadevi.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan today said that his government will ask Centre to raise the ceiling on borrowing for the state to 4.5 per cent of the GDP.

After the proposed strategic disinvestment of Air India failed to take off in May, the government has been looking at ways to bolster the carrier.

The aggregate value of promoter holdings in 15 top Tata group companies has crossed $100 billion (Rs 7.03 lakh crore), thanks to the recent surge in TCS and Titan stocks.