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New Delhi, July 6 (PTI): Cooking gas LPG price on Wednesday was hiked by INR 50 per cylinder, the eighth increase in rates in the last one year that took the cumulative rise to INR 244. Non-subsidised LPG now costs INR 1,053 per 14.2-kg cylinder in the national capital, up from INR 1,003 previously, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. Firming international energy prices have led to non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) prices being increased on eight occasions in the past year. In all, rates have gone up by INR 244 per cylinder or 30 per cent. Common households pay non-subsidised rates for the cooking gas they buy after the government restricted subsidy to just poor beneficiaries who got connections under the Ujjwala scheme. This is the fourth increase in the LPG rate since the Ukraine war. The price was hiked by INR 50 per cylinder on March 22 and again by the same quantum on May 7. Rates went up by INR 3.50 per cylinder on May 19. Of the INR 244 per cylinder h

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