{"id":359940,"date":"2020-06-29T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359940"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:10:21","slug":"oil-companies-pause-after-hiking-petrol-diesel-prices-for-21-days-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-companies-pause-after-hiking-petrol-diesel-prices-for-21-days-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil companies pause after hiking petrol, diesel prices for 21 days straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State oil marketing companies did not hike petrol and diesel prices in Delhi on Sunday, pausing after 21 days as the Congress party said it would protest against the government.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol in Delhi costs Rs 80.38 a litre and diesel 80.40 per litre after companies hiked prices on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On June 27, price of petrol was increased by Rs 0.25 per litre while that of diesel by Rs 0.21 per litre. Rates differ from state to state, depending on value-added tax (VAT). The state had increased the VAT on diesel from 16.75 per cent to 30 per cent and on diesel from 27 per cent to 30 per cent. The cumulative hike since the oil companies started the cycle on June 7 now totals to Rs 9.12 for petrol and Rs 11.01 for diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State oil marketing companies did not hike petrol and diesel prices in Delhi on Sunday, pausing after 21 days as the Congress party said it would protest against the government. Petrol in Delhi costs Rs 80.38 a litre and diesel 80.40 per litre after companies hiked prices on Saturday. On June 27, price of petrol was increased by Rs 0.25 per litre while that of diesel by Rs 0.21 per litre. Rates differ from state to state, depending on value-added tax (VAT). The state had increased the VAT on diesel from 16.75 per cent to 30 per cent and on [&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-359940","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\/359940","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=359940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}