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Petrol Nears ₹80 Mark, Diesel At New High After 16th Price Hike In A Row
Petrol Price On Monday Was Hiked By 33 Paise Per Litre And Diesel By 58 Paise To Take Retail Rates To Record High As The Oil Companies Increased Prices For The 16th Day In A Row.
Petrol Price In Delhi Was Hiked To ₹79.56 Per Litre From ₹79.23 While Diesel Rates Were Increased To ₹78.55 A Litre From ₹78.27, According To A Price Notification Of State Oil Marketing Companies.
In 16 Days, Petrol Price Has Been Hiked By ₹8.3 Per Litre And Diesel By ₹9.46 – A Record Increase In Rates Of The Fuel In Any Fortnight Since Pricing Was Deregulated In April 2002.
Rates Have Been Increased Across The Country And Vary From State To State Depending On The Incidence Of Local Sales Tax Or Value Added Tax (VAT).
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The Increase In Rates Since June 7 Is The Highest In Any Fortnight. When Petrol And Diesel Pricing Was Deregulated In April 2002, Oil Companies Revised Rates Every Fortnight In Line With The Cost. They Switched To Daily Price Revision In May 2017 To Allow Cost To Reflect Instantaneously In Retail Rates.
According To Pricing Data, The Maximum Rates Have Increased In Any Fortnight Was ₹4 To ₹5 Per Litre.
The 16th Daily Increase In Rates, Since Oil Companies On June 7 Restarted Revising Prices In Line With Costs After Ending An 82-Day Hiatus In Rate Revision, Has Taken Diesel Prices To Fresh Highs. Petrol Price To Is At A Two-Year High.
Prior To The Current Rally, The Peak Diesel Rates Had Touched Was On October 16, 2018, When Prices Had Climbed To ₹75.69 Per Litre In Delhi. The Highest-Ever Petrol Price Was On October 4, 2018, When Rates Soared To ₹84 A Litre In Delhi.
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In Mumbai, Petrol Price Has Gone Up From ₹86.04 Per Litre To ₹86.36 On Monday. Diesel Rates Have Increased To ₹77.24 A Litre From ₹76.69 A Litre, According To The Price Notification.
The 82-Day Freeze In Rates This Year Was Imposed In Mid-March Soon After The Government Hiked Excise Duty On Petrol And Diesel To Shore Up Additional Finances.
The Government On March 14 Hiked Excise Duty On Petrol And Diesel By ₹3 Per Litre Each And Then Again On May 5 By A Record ₹10 Per Litre In Case Of Petrol And ₹13 On Diesel. The Two Hikes Gave The Government ₹2 Lakh Crore In Additional Tax Revenues.
Oil PSUs Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) And Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), Instead Of Passing On The Excise Duty Hikes To Customers, Adjusted Them Against The Fall In The Retail Rates That Was Warranted Because Of Fall In International Oil Prices To Two Decade Low. International Oil Prices Have Since Rebounded And Oil Firms Are Now Adjusting Retail Rates In Line With Them.
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Winner of BTS’ Jungkook lookalike competition in Chicago is an all-too-familiar face as ‘lore runs deep’
On Sunday, The BTS Jungkook lookalike contest winner was crowned in Chicago. Impersonators sporting his signature piercings and tattoos swarmed the venue.
Social media personality Andrew Alexander, who’s previously been documented as sharing “striking similarities” with BTS’ Jungkook, won the K-pop star-focussed lookalike competition in Chicago on Sunday, November 24, 2024. (Instagram )
The chain reaction set off by YouTuber Anthony Po’s super-viral Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in Manhattan on October 27, led fans to the K-pop chapter of this journey a month later.
On Sunday, November 24, the new US trend surrounding celebrity lookalike contests saw BTS’ Jungkook enthusiasts turning up for registration in droves. As the Hindustan Times (and several other outlets) previously reported, the event held at Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago, Illinois, handed out a $20 cash prize and a bottle of Soju to the winner. As it turned out, some older fans of the K-pop septet already knew the much-debated winner of the anticipated turnout.
A flurry of fan-shared videos and photos popped up online on Sunday (US time), capturing the three finalists in action as the trio, like other Jungkook impersonators showed up dressed in variations of black outfits. Ultimately, Andrew Alexander, a widely renowned YouTube sensation, was crowned the winner. Even if the name doesn’t ring a bell, some BTS fans will remember the content creator from a years-old YouTube video, in which his sister “turned” him into the beloved K-pop group’s maknae.
Who is Andrew Alexander, the winner of Chicago’s Jungkook lookalike competition?
According to the social media personality’s YouTube videos, Andrew is a third-year university student living in California. He clearly flew into Chicago, especially for the Jungkook contest scheduled this week.
Over four years ago, Alexander’s sister, Ashley, posted a video titled “I turned my brother into BTS Jungkook,” as she highlighted how “a lot of people say he looks like” the K-pop star. Given their “striking similarities,” as reflected not only their resemblance (though not validated by a lot of fans) but also their mannerisms, Andrew’s other sister (presumably), Amber, said at the time, “It’s so funny every video we post, there’s at least 20 new people that are like ‘I don’t know if anyone’s ever said this but, Andrew looks like Jungkook’”.
However, Andrew himself did not admit to the similarities. That didn’t stop BTS fan pages from drawing comparisons between him and the BTS singer.
In a video posted before the viral winning announcement, Andrew’s sister documented the scene at the competition venue. Ashley wrote confirmed in the caption, “He flew from LA we flew from NY.” Ironically, the ultimate Jungkook lookalike contest participant was also registered as #7, a number that holds great emotional significance in the BTS fandom, given the group’s member count.
A netizen who’d had been a longtime fan of the Alexander siblings clan – all YouTube personalities – commented on one of Andrew’s posts on November 24, “been a fan since 2018,” as they added a reference to Ashley’s YouTube channel “ur mom ashley.”
In yet another video posted by Amber Alexander, she also recorded the full-circle moment: “He flew all the way from California for this (crying emoji) after years of getting comments saying he looks like Jungkook @andrewalexander WON THE LOOKALIKE COMPETITION.”
Hours before show time, Ashley also took to her TikTok profile (@aaashleyk), showing a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the family ‘Jungkook-ified’ Andrew by drawing the pop star’s famously known hand tattoos and suggesting that he needed a lip ring as well. For his final look, Andrew also showed up with Jungkook’s eyebrow and ear piercings.
Fans react to the winner being crowned for the lookalike contest
While some instantly approved the decision with comments like “Andrew is actually the ONLY one who looked like jungkook, the others literally have no similarity at all,” others who probably never tracked the siblings’ years-old digital footprints were lost why this win was especially gaining momentous traction online.
“If Andrew didn’t win, I would have hosted another one to make sure he won,” someone else wrote in the comments. Others quipped along the lines of how Jungkook had returned from the military and “Kinda crazy how they let Jungkook win his own lookalike competition.”
Those familiar with Andrew’s journey, definitely agreed with how the contest “cooked” with its final decision, especially since “the lore runs deep.” Who could’ve known that this was years in the making at a time when lookalike contests weren’t a norm?
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