{"id":401453,"date":"2021-02-22T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401453"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:36:42","slug":"petrol-at-rs-97-per-litre-in-mumbai-diesel-crosses-rs-88-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-at-rs-97-per-litre-in-mumbai-diesel-crosses-rs-88-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol at Rs 97 per litre in Mumbai, diesel crosses Rs 88-mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol price on Saturday touched an all-time high of Rs 97 per litre in Mumbai while diesel rate crossed Rs 88-mark.<br \/>\nPetrol price was hiked by record 39 paise per litre and diesel by 37 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.<br \/>\nThis the 12th straight day of price hike and the largest daily increase since oil companies started to revise rates on a daily basis in 2017.<br \/>\nThe increase pushed the petrol price to Rs 90.58 a litre in Delhi and to Rs 97 in Mumbai.<br \/>\nDiesel now comes for Rs 80.97 a litre in the national capital and for Rs 88.06 in Mumbai.<br \/>\nThe increase follows a spurt in oil prices in the international market, on which India is dependent to meet its 85 per cent of the needs. Brent oil crossed $65 a barrel this week as a worsening US energy crisis took out almost 40 per cent of the nation&#8217;s crude production.<br \/>\nIn 12 days, retail petrol prices have risen by Rs 3.63 a litre, a record since the pricing was deregulated in 2010, and diesel rates have gone up by Rs 3.84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Petrol price on Saturday touched an all-time high of Rs 97 per litre in Mumbai while diesel rate crossed Rs 88-mark. Petrol price was hiked by record 39 paise per litre and diesel by 37 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. This the 12th straight day of price hike and the largest daily increase since oil companies started to revise rates on a daily basis in 2017. The increase pushed the petrol price to Rs 90.58 a litre in Delhi and to Rs 97 in Mumbai. Diesel now comes for Rs 80.97 [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401453","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=401453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}