{"id":309103,"date":"2020-01-07T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309103"},"modified":"2020-01-07T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:23:50","slug":"us-iran-crisis-petrol-prices-up-15-paise-diesel-by-17-paise-crude-at-70-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-iran-crisis-petrol-prices-up-15-paise-diesel-by-17-paise-crude-at-70-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran crisis: Petrol prices up 15 paise, diesel by 17 paise; crude at $70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol prices on Monday were hiked by 15 paisa a litre and diesel rates were increased by 17 paisa as global oil prices hit $70 mark in the wake of escalating US-Iran tensions fanning fresh fears of conflict in the crude-rich Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>The retail pump prices of petrol in Delhi rose to Rs 75.69 per litre &#8211; the highest since November 2018, while those of diesel climbed to Rs 68.68, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. <\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth straight day of increase in retail pump prices. <\/p>\n<p>Oil prices surged, gold hit a more than six-year high and equities tumbled Monday amid escalating US-Iran tensions after the US assassination of commander Qasem Soleimani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol prices on Monday were hiked by 15 paisa a litre and diesel rates were increased by 17 paisa as global oil prices hit $70 mark in the wake of escalating US-Iran tensions fanning fresh fears of conflict in the crude-rich Middle East. The retail pump prices of petrol in Delhi rose to Rs 75.69 per litre &#8211; the highest since November 2018, while those of diesel climbed to Rs 68.68, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. This is the fifth straight day of increase in retail pump prices. Oil prices surged, gold hit a more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309103","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}