After a day’s pause, the state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) hiked the prices of petrol and diesel on Sunday pushing the prices of the two auto fuel to new historic highs across the country.
According to a price notification, petrol price was hiked by 29 paise per litre and diesel by 28 paise per litre. Following the latest rate revision, petrol price in Dimapur increased to Rs. Rs.95.89 per litre while diesel price breached Rs.90-mark to touch an all-time high of Rs.90.09 per litre.
In the state capital Kohima, petrol and diesel prices soared to record highs of Rs.96.84 per litre Rs.90.85 per litre respectively.
The hike on Sunday was the 27th increase in prices since May 4.