{"id":420850,"date":"2021-06-17T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420850"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:20:39","slug":"oil-spike-heightens-indias-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-spike-heightens-indias-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil spike heightens India\u2019s challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil NSE 0.10 % extended gains on Wednesday, almost touching $75 a barrel on rising global demand. This persistent uptrend over the past two months has pushed domestic petrol and diesel prices to record levels. A litre of petrol now costs more than Rs 100 in several areas.<\/p>\n<p>In Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, which has among the priciest fuel rates in the country, petrol costs Rs 107.8 and diesel Rs 100.5 per litre. This has led to calls for cutting steep fuel taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil NSE 0.10 % extended gains on Wednesday, almost touching $75 a barrel on rising global demand. This persistent uptrend over the past two months has pushed domestic petrol and diesel prices to record levels. A litre of petrol now costs more than Rs 100 in several areas. In Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, which has among the priciest fuel rates in the country, petrol costs Rs 107.8 and diesel Rs 100.5 per litre. This has led to calls for cutting steep fuel taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420850","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}