New Delhi, July 13 (TIWN) Diesel prices across the metro cities increased on Sunday, after remaining unchanged for four consecutive days.

Fuel prices were last raised on June 29, following which petrol hit a 19-month high and diesel price touched a lifetime high in Delhi. State-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) began revising petrol and diesel prices daily from July 7.

Following this, the fuel prices were being increased continually by an average 50-60 paise per day.

From June 7 to 29, the petrol rate has been hiked by Rs 9.17 per litre, while diesel price was raised by Rs 11.12 a litre, an increase of 13% and 16%, respectively.