Sri Lanka Fuel Prices

Sri Lanka's state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on Sunday reduced the diesel and petrol retail prices, the first decrease after five hikes since February.

Sri Lanka has less than a day's worth of fuel left, the energy minister said Sunday, with public transport grinding to a halt. He said the petrol reserves in the country were at about 4,000 tonnes.

Sri Lanka hiked fuel prices on Sunday, creating further pain for ordinary people as officials from the United States arrived for talks aimed at alleviating the island's dire economic crisis.

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka today raised the petrol price by 24.3 per cent and diesel by 38.4 per cent, a record hike in fuel prices amidst the country's worst economic crisis due to the shortage of foreign exchange reserves.

Sri Lanka increased fuel and transport prices on Tuesday, a long-flagged move to combat its debilitating economic crisis.

Sri Lanka hiked petrol prices by 20%-24% on Tuesday and also increased diesel prices by 35%-38%, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.

Rahul Gandhi today compared India to crisis-hit Sri Lanka in a tweet criticising the state of the economy, in which the graphs of the two countries appeared similar when it came to unemployment, fuel prices and communal violence.

Ceylon Petroleum Corporation's new price of 92 octane petrol at Rs 338 per litre is an increase of Rs 84

Amid the unprecedented economic crisis in Sri Lanka, the price of rice has risen to "unbearable levels" in the island nation, according to several consumers. The minimum price of a kilo of rice in the general market has now exceeded Rs 200-240.

The situation in Sri Lanka is so bad that there is shortage of food, fuel, long power cuts and a massive rise in prices across the board. Why has this happened? What has caused this economic crisis - the worst that Sri Lanka has ever seen?

Across Sri Lanka, families like Hadaragama's are feeling the growing pain of the country's worst economic crisis in years, which has driven up prices of essentials and triggered shortages of everything from food to fuel.

Sri Lankan police said on Sunday two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices leading to record inflation.

A jibe floating on social media featured in Parliament today as the government faced questions on soaring fuel prices. An opposition MP questioned why the prices of petrol and diesel were lower in neighbouring countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Petrol price of Rs 63.16 per litre in Delhi is more than Rs 44.05 per litre rate of the fuel in Pakistan and Rs 54.75 in Sri Lanka. However, it is cheaper than Rs 76.97 per litre price in Bangladesh and Rs 68.13 a litre in Nepal.

Sri Lanka's only private sector fuel retailer, Lanka IOC, a subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation increased its gasoline price in line with the state-run firm.

Sri Lanka's state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on Sunday reduced the diesel and petrol retail prices, the first decrease after five hikes since February.

Sri Lanka has less than a day's worth of fuel left, the energy minister said Sunday, with public transport grinding to a halt. He said the petrol reserves in the country were at about 4,000 tonnes.

Sri Lanka hiked fuel prices on Sunday, creating further pain for ordinary people as officials from the United States arrived for talks aimed at alleviating the island's dire economic crisis.

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka today raised the petrol price by 24.3 per cent and diesel by 38.4 per cent, a record hike in fuel prices amidst the country's worst economic crisis due to the shortage of foreign exchange reserves.

Sri Lanka increased fuel and transport prices on Tuesday, a long-flagged move to combat its debilitating economic crisis.

Sri Lanka hiked petrol prices by 20%-24% on Tuesday and also increased diesel prices by 35%-38%, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.

Rahul Gandhi today compared India to crisis-hit Sri Lanka in a tweet criticising the state of the economy, in which the graphs of the two countries appeared similar when it came to unemployment, fuel prices and communal violence.

Ceylon Petroleum Corporation's new price of 92 octane petrol at Rs 338 per litre is an increase of Rs 84

Amid the unprecedented economic crisis in Sri Lanka, the price of rice has risen to "unbearable levels" in the island nation, according to several consumers. The minimum price of a kilo of rice in the general market has now exceeded Rs 200-240.

The situation in Sri Lanka is so bad that there is shortage of food, fuel, long power cuts and a massive rise in prices across the board. Why has this happened? What has caused this economic crisis - the worst that Sri Lanka has ever seen?

Across Sri Lanka, families like Hadaragama's are feeling the growing pain of the country's worst economic crisis in years, which has driven up prices of essentials and triggered shortages of everything from food to fuel.

Sri Lankan police said on Sunday two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices leading to record inflation.

A jibe floating on social media featured in Parliament today as the government faced questions on soaring fuel prices. An opposition MP questioned why the prices of petrol and diesel were lower in neighbouring countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Petrol price of Rs 63.16 per litre in Delhi is more than Rs 44.05 per litre rate of the fuel in Pakistan and Rs 54.75 in Sri Lanka. However, it is cheaper than Rs 76.97 per litre price in Bangladesh and Rs 68.13 a litre in Nepal.

Sri Lanka's only private sector fuel retailer, Lanka IOC, a subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation increased its gasoline price in line with the state-run firm.