{"id":309190,"date":"2020-01-07T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309190"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:29:41","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices up"},"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 USD 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 \u2014 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 USD 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 \u2014 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 [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309190","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=309190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}