{"id":341981,"date":"2020-03-16T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341981"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:00:00","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-cut-for-a-third-straight-day-as-crude-oil-softens-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-cut-for-a-third-straight-day-as-crude-oil-softens-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices cut for a third straight day as crude oil softens 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were slight changes in petrol and diesel prices on Monday after two consecutive days of revisions.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol now costs Rs 69.63 a litre in Delhi, Rs 75.28 a litre in Mumbai, Rs 72.26 a litre in Chennai, and Rs 72.27 a litre in Kolkata, according to a price notification by state-owned oil companies. Similarly, diesel costs Rs 62.33 per litre in Delhi, Rs 65.19 a litre in Mumbai, Rs 65.69 a litre in Chennai, and Rs 64.6 a litre in Kolkata. <\/p>\n<p>Today, the price of petrol was reduced by 12-19 paise and that of diesel by 11-17 paise across all major cities in the country. <\/p>\n<p>In the international market, the crude oil price declined 5 per cent to under $30 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were slight changes in petrol and diesel prices on Monday after two consecutive days of revisions. Petrol now costs Rs 69.63 a litre in Delhi, Rs 75.28 a litre in Mumbai, Rs 72.26 a litre in Chennai, and Rs 72.27 a litre in Kolkata, according to a price notification by state-owned oil companies. Similarly, diesel costs Rs 62.33 per litre in Delhi, Rs 65.19 a litre in Mumbai, Rs 65.69 a litre in Chennai, and Rs 64.6 a litre in Kolkata. Today, the price of petrol was reduced by 12-19 paise and that of diesel by 11-17 paise across [&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-341981","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\/341981","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=341981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}