Diesel price on Sunday crossed the Rs 100-a-litre mark in some places in Madhya Pradesh, while Sikkim became the latest state to see Rs 100-per-litre petrol price after yet another hike in fuel rates. Petrol price was increased by 35 paise per litre and diesel by 18 paise a litre, according to a price notification from state-owned fuel retailers.

In Delhi, petrol now comes for Rs 99.51 a litre and diesel is priced at Rs 89.36 per litre.

Fuel prices differ from state to state depending on the incidence of local taxes such as value-added tax (VAT) and freight charges. For this reason, petrol has crossed the Rs 100-a-litre mark in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bihar, Punjab and Ladakh.

Sikkim joined that list on Sunday. Petrol in the state capital Gangtok is now priced at Rs 100.15 a litre and diesel comes for Rs 91.55.

Petrol has crossed Rs 100-a-litre mark in the metro cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune and it is over Rs 99 in the other two cities of Delhi and Calcutta.

Rates of diesel, the most used fuel in the country, have crossed Rs 100 a litre at Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh in Rajasthan as well in some places in Odisha.

On Sunday, Rewa, Shahdol and Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh saw those levels.

The hike on Sunday is the 34th increase in the price of petrol and 33rd in the case of diesel since May 4, when state-owned oil firms ended an 18-day hiatus in rate revision they observed during the Assembly elections in states such as Bengal. In 34 hikes, the price of petrol has risen by Rs 9.11 per litre. Diesel rates have soared by Rs 8.63 a litre in 33 instances of price increase.