{"id":424266,"date":"2021-07-05T09:52:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424266"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:14:51","slug":"petrol-and-diesel-rates-hiked-on-sunday-over-10-jump-in-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-and-diesel-rates-hiked-on-sunday-over-10-jump-in-2-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol and diesel rates hiked on Sunday, over 10% jump in 2 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auto fuel rates rallied on Sunday as state-run oil companies raised petrol prices by 35 paise and diesel by 18 paise a litre in the 34th hike in two months, making the two fuels costlier by over 10% since May 4, a day after results of five assembly polls were declared. <\/p>\n<p>Retail rates of auto fuels moved almost in tandem with international oil prices since May 4 resulting in 10.07% ( \u20b99.11 per litre) jump in petrol and 10.68% ( \u20b98.63 a litre) in diesel prices, while benchmark Brent crude surged 10.58% in the two-month period at $76.17 a barrel on Friday close.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest hike, petrol rates in Delhi and Kolkata have inched closer to the \u20b9100 a litre mark at \u20b999.51 and \u20b999.45 per litre respectively. New rates of diesel in Delhi and Kolkata are \u20b989.36 per litre and \u20b992.27 respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auto fuel rates rallied on Sunday as state-run oil companies raised petrol prices by 35 paise and diesel by 18 paise a litre in the 34th hike in two months, making the two fuels costlier by over 10% since May 4, a day after results of five assembly polls were declared. Retail rates of auto fuels moved almost in tandem with international oil prices since May 4 resulting in 10.07% ( \u20b99.11 per litre) jump in petrol and 10.68% ( \u20b98.63 a litre) in diesel prices, while benchmark Brent crude surged 10.58% in the two-month period at $76.17 a barrel [&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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424266","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\/424266","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=424266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}