While the current round of price hikes can be blamed on global trends, fuel prices in India are already at elevated levels thanks to a steep and frequent increase in excise duties and VAT in the last few years

Crude oil prices are also at their highest since January 2020. Oil prices rose 2 per cent on Monday to their highest in over a year, with Brent nudging past $60 a barrel, boosted by supply cuts among key producers

Sectorally, except for FMCG and PSU Bank, all the indices closed in green territory, with over 3% rise in auto and media index, followed by 2% rise in IT and realty index

A non-subsidised 14.2 kg LPG cylinder in Delhi and Mumbai is now available for Rs 719, according to Indian Oil Corporation. In Kolkata, an LPG cylinder will cost Rs 745 while in Chennai it will cost Rs 735

Stock Market Live News Today: Sensex and Nifty continued hitting new all-time highs today. Both benchmarks hit fresh lifetime highs of 51,523 and 15,159 earlier today

Brent crude for April touched a high of $59.95 a barrel and was at $59.85 by 0041 GMT, up 51 cents, or 0.9%. Front-month prices last hit $60 on Feb. 20, 2020

On ONGC's efforts towards sustainable growth, chairman and MD Shashi Shanker said that over the last five years, the oil company  has reduced its carbon emission intensity by more than 12%

Fuel prices today: State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) revise petrol and diesel prices daily on the basis of international oil prices and foreign exchange rates

An index of the world's major 50 markets, MSCI ACWI, extended its gains into a fifth straight day to come within reach of a record high touched about two weeks ago

Markets were encouraged by stronger-than-expected orders for US goods in December, pointing to strength in manufacturing, and hopes for swift approval by lawmakers of President Joe Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid plan

If emerging markets can get their policy and rule of law act together, they will become a long playing bull market

The policy for $6-billion-per-annum domestic vehicle scrapping and recycling market has raised hopes of sustainable recovery for the down-and-out automobile industry

India Stock Market News Updates Today: Sensex scaled record high of 51,073.27 while the Nifty hit record high of 15,014.65 level in early trade. SBI, Kotak Bank, IndusInd Bank, HDFC, ONGC and Axis Bank were top gainers in the Sensex pack

Oil prices extended gains on Thursday after the OPEC+ alliance of producers stuck to its reduced output policy and U.S. crude stocks fell, with optimism over a new U.S. pandemic relief bill adding further price support.

Sensex and Nifty hit fresh lifetime highs of 50,678 and 14,913 during today's session

Today's fuel prices: The current cost of one litre of petrol in Mumbai is Rs 93.20/litre, in Hyderabad its Rs 90.10/litre, in Chennai Rs 89.13/litre, and in Kolkata its Rs 88.01/litre

The local unit opened at 72.92 against the US dollar at the interbank forex market and inched 6 paise higher to 72.90 over its previous close in early deals

Hero MotoCorp starts distribution of Harley Davidson bikes in India; sets up dedicated vertical Two-wheeler manufacturer Hero MotoCorp has kicked-off distribution of Harley Davidson motorcycles in India and has set up a dedicated vertical for the same. In an exchange filing on Wednesday, the auto major said that the firm is setting up a separate vertical to operate new business of distributing Harley Davidson products and merchandise in the country. This announcement came several months aft...

The update of the debt assessment methodology, the first since 2013 in the wake of a European sovereign debt crisis, is expected to be operational by the fourth quarter of 2021 or the first quarter of 2022, IMF officials said

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV), a division of US oil major Occidental, delivered the carbon-neutral oil to Reliance