{"id":350238,"date":"2020-05-07T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350238"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:17:40","slug":"up-hikes-petrol-price-by-rs-2-l-diesel-by-rs-1-l-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-hikes-petrol-price-by-rs-2-l-diesel-by-rs-1-l-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UP hikes petrol price by Rs 2\/L, diesel by Rs 1\/L"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday approved a hike in the prices of petrol and diesel, a state minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing reporters after the state cabinet meeting here, Uttar Pradesh Finance minister Suresh Khanna said, &#8220;The UP government has increased the price of petrol by Rs 2 per litre, and that of diesel by Rs 1 per litre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;Petrol will now cost Rs 73.91 per litre in UP, while diesel will be available at Rs 63.86 per litre. The hiked prices will come into effect from midnight today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the Centre&#8217;s decision on Tuesday to increase excise duty on petrol by a record Rs 10 per litre and Rs 13 per litre for diesel. The hike, however, did not push up fuel prices as global oil prices have dropped to a nearly two-decade low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday approved a hike in the prices of petrol and diesel, a state minister said. Briefing reporters after the state cabinet meeting here, Uttar Pradesh Finance minister Suresh Khanna said, &#8220;The UP government has increased the price of petrol by Rs 2 per litre, and that of diesel by Rs 1 per litre.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Petrol will now cost Rs 73.91 per litre in UP, while diesel will be available at Rs 63.86 per litre. The hiked prices will come into effect from midnight today.&#8221; The move follows the Centre&#8217;s decision on Tuesday to increase [&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-350238","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\/350238","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=350238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}