{"id":292653,"date":"2019-09-19T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292653"},"modified":"2019-09-19T05:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:32:33","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-today-see-biggest-hike-in-2-months-5-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-today-see-biggest-hike-in-2-months-5-things-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices today see biggest hike in 2 months: 5 things to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : In the biggest price hikes since the July Budget, the price of petrol was today increased by 25 paise and that of diesel by 24 paise. The fuel price hike follows a sudden spike in crude oil rates on Monday following drone attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure which wiped off 5% of world&#8217;s crude oil supplies. A litre of petrol costs \u20b972.42 in Delhi, \u20b978.10 in Mumbai, \u20b975.26 in Chennai and \u20b975.14 in Kolkata. Diesel costs \u20b965.82 a litre in Delhi, \u20b969.04 in Mumbai, \u20b969.57 in Chennai and \u20b968.23 in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s increase is the biggest single-day hike since the July 5 maiden Budget of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman that raised rates by almost \u20b92.50 a litre due to an increase in excise duty on fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : In the biggest price hikes since the July Budget, the price of petrol was today increased by 25 paise and that of diesel by 24 paise. The fuel price hike follows a sudden spike in crude oil rates on Monday following drone attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure which wiped off 5% of world&#8217;s crude oil supplies. A litre of petrol costs \u20b972.42 in Delhi, \u20b978.10 in Mumbai, \u20b975.26 in Chennai and \u20b975.14 in Kolkata. Diesel costs \u20b965.82 a litre in Delhi, \u20b969.04 in Mumbai, \u20b969.57 in Chennai and \u20b968.23 in Kolkata. Today&#8217;s increase is the biggest single-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}