{"id":294650,"date":"2019-10-01T11:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294650"},"modified":"2019-10-01T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:23:26","slug":"core-sector-contracts-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/core-sector-contracts-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Core sector contracts in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Reflecting the continued weakness in economic activity, the eight core sectors contracted 0.5 per cent in August to a three-and-a-half year low of 0.5 per cent, as production in five key sectors shrank and showed negative growth. Five industries&#8211;coal, crude oil, natural gas, cement, and electricity&#8211;recorded negative growth. The eight sectors had expanded by 4.7 per cent in August last year, according to government data released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The previous low was recorded at -1.3 in November 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Reflecting the continued weakness in economic activity, the eight core sectors contracted 0.5 per cent in August to a three-and-a-half year low of 0.5 per cent, as production in five key sectors shrank and showed negative growth. Five industries&#8211;coal, crude oil, natural gas, cement, and electricity&#8211;recorded negative growth. The eight sectors had expanded by 4.7 per cent in August last year, according to government data released on Monday. The previous low was recorded at -1.3 in November 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294650","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}