{"id":397379,"date":"2021-01-27T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T05:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397379"},"modified":"2021-01-27T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T05:31:50","slug":"petrol-price-hits-another-fresh-high-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-price-hits-another-fresh-high-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price hits another fresh high in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Retail price of petrol hits a new record high on Tuesday in Delhi with oil marketing companies (OMCs) increasing pump prices by 35 paise a litre to \u20b986.05. Diesel prices were also up by 35 paise a litre to retail at \u20b976.23 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel was retailing at a record high in Mumbai at \u20b983.03 a litre. . On 30 July, 2020, diesel had peaked to an all-time high of \u20b981.94 a litre in Delhi. OMCs started increasing auto fuel prices since early January, after holding steady for 29 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre has, however, not responded to calls to lower taxes on transportation fuels. In 2020-21, India, the third-largest oil importer globally, had raised taxes on petrol and diesel by \u20b913 and \u20b916, respectively, in two tranches, through a special additional excise duty, besides road and infrastructure cess. Central and state taxes, and dealers\u2019 commission, are added to the refinery gate price of auto fuels to arrive at the retail price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Retail price of petrol hits a new record high on Tuesday in Delhi with oil marketing companies (OMCs) increasing pump prices by 35 paise a litre to \u20b986.05. Diesel prices were also up by 35 paise a litre to retail at \u20b976.23 a litre. Diesel was retailing at a record high in Mumbai at \u20b983.03 a litre. . On 30 July, 2020, diesel had peaked to an all-time high of \u20b981.94 a litre in Delhi. OMCs started increasing auto fuel prices since early January, after holding steady for 29 days. The Centre has, however, not responded to calls [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397379","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=397379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}