{"id":353620,"date":"2020-05-27T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353620"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:52:54","slug":"lights-torches-sell-at-premium-across-calcutta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lights-torches-sell-at-premium-across-calcutta\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, torches sell at premium across Calcutta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The power crisis in several parts of the city in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan has triggered a scramble for emergency lights and torches across the city. <\/p>\n<p>An electrical appliance store along Rajarhat Main Road that had been closing by 5:30pm because of the lockdown is now open till 7pm and struggling to meet the demand for emergency lights. <\/p>\n<p>Most of Rajarhat, Baguiati, Rajpur-Sonarpur and Behala are still without electricity or facing frequent power cuts. <\/p>\n<p>Several residents The Telegraph spoke to said that they had bought emergency lights and torches at a premium and even candles were in short supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power crisis in several parts of the city in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan has triggered a scramble for emergency lights and torches across the city. An electrical appliance store along Rajarhat Main Road that had been closing by 5:30pm because of the lockdown is now open till 7pm and struggling to meet the demand for emergency lights. Most of Rajarhat, Baguiati, Rajpur-Sonarpur and Behala are still without electricity or facing frequent power cuts. Several residents The Telegraph spoke to said that they had bought emergency lights and torches at a premium and even candles were in short supply.<\/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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353620","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=353620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}