{"id":401018,"date":"2021-02-18T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401018"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T07:45:48","slug":"petrol-hits-%e2%82%b9100-l-in-rajasthans-sri-ganganagar-nears-%e2%82%b990-l-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-hits-%e2%82%b9100-l-in-rajasthans-sri-ganganagar-nears-%e2%82%b990-l-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol hits \u20b9100\/L in Rajasthan&#8217;s Sri Ganganagar, nears \u20b990\/L in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of petrol touched \u20b9100 a litre in a Rajasthan district and rose to record highs elsewhere, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised the governments that came before his for not doing enough to address India\u2019s dependance on imports for oil, and petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan appealed to major oil producers to relax their self-imposed production cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The retail price of petrol crossed \u20b9100 per litre in Rajasthan\u2019s Sri Ganganagar on Wednesday, the first time the fuel was sold at rates in the three digits anywhere in the country, as rising global crude oil prices and tight fiscal headroom appeared to limit the government\u2019s ability to restrain the spike. In Delhi, petrol retailed at \u20b989.54 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The government has urged the oil producers\u2019 cartel \u2013 the Organisation of Petrol Exporting Countries (OPEC) \u2013 as well as allies such as Russia to ease production cuts as higher prices are hitting demand and adding to inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of petrol touched \u20b9100 a litre in a Rajasthan district and rose to record highs elsewhere, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised the governments that came before his for not doing enough to address India\u2019s dependance on imports for oil, and petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan appealed to major oil producers to relax their self-imposed production cuts. The retail price of petrol crossed \u20b9100 per litre in Rajasthan\u2019s Sri Ganganagar on Wednesday, the first time the fuel was sold at rates in the three digits anywhere in the country, as rising global crude oil prices and tight fiscal [&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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401018","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=401018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}