{"id":309232,"date":"2020-01-07T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309232"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:46:16","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-up-for-fifth-straight-day-as-crude-hits-70-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-up-for-fifth-straight-day-as-crude-hits-70-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices up for fifth straight day as crude hits $70-mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol prices on Monday were hiked by 15 paise a litre and diesel rates were increased by 17 paise 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nThis is the fifth straight day of increase in retail pump prices.<br \/>\nOil 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.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump on Sunday warned of a &#8220;major retaliation&#8221; against Tehran after it threatened revenge for the killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol prices on Monday were hiked by 15 paise a litre and diesel rates were increased by 17 paise 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 [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309232","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=309232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}