<h1>Excise duty cut on petrol and diesel aims to ease pressure on fuel retailers amid rising global crude prices.</h1> Excise duty on petrol has been reduced to Rs 3 a litre from Rs 13 a litre, while excise duty on diesel has been reduced to nil from Rs 10 a litre, with immediate effect. The duty cuts are intended to ease pressure on oil marketing companies facing elevated global crude prices and frozen retail fuel prices amid geopolitical disruption in oil markets.