New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS): Petrol and prices in the country have fallen sharply again even though global oil prices rebounded and rose over $43 a barrel marking its fifth consecutive day of rise.

On Friday, the pump prices of petrol and diesel fell by 26 and 35 paisa per litre, respectively in the national capital making it one of the sharpest daily fall in the last five months.

Accordingly, petrol is now at Rs 81.14 a litre and diesel Rs 72.02 a litre in Delhi.

In the last two days of price cuts, petrol has become cheaper by 41 paisa per litre while diesel 54 paisa per litre.

This is the fourth fall in petrol prices and eighth reduction in diesel prices this month. Prior to this month while petrol prices had risen, diesel prices remained steady or fell on a few days.

According to Indian Oil Corporation website, petrol prices have now reduced to Rs 81.14, Rs 82.67, Rs 87.82 and Rs 84.21 a litre in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai, respectively. Similarly, the price of diesel in these metros in the same order stands at Rs 72.02, Rs 75.52, Rs 78.48 and Rs 77.40 per litre, respectively.

Friday's price cuts have been in the range of 23-26 paisa in the case of petrol and 33-37 paisa in the case of diesel.

The latest changes in retail prices of auto fuel are in line with the global price movement of the product in preceding weeks when prices had softened. But crude prices have risen in the last five days with benchmark Brent crude hovering over $43 a barrel for November delivery on InterContinental Exchange. Even US crude WTI has shot over $41 barrel mark.