{"id":426736,"date":"2021-07-20T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=426736"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:32:09","slug":"fm-nirmala-sitharaman-downplays-oil-price-hike-inflation-concerns-says-economy-on-recovery-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fm-nirmala-sitharaman-downplays-oil-price-hike-inflation-concerns-says-economy-on-recovery-path\/","title":{"rendered":"FM Nirmala Sitharaman downplays oil price hike, inflation concerns, says economy on recovery path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday downplayed the high petroleum prices fuelling inflation and reiterated that fundamentals of economy are strong and India will continue to attract investment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weight of fuels like petrol, diesel and other fuels in the total CPI-Combined is only 2.52%,\u201d Sitharaman said, adding that the CPI- combined inflation in June 2021 was 6.26%, as against the average CPI-combined inflation of 6.16% during 2020-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday downplayed the high petroleum prices fuelling inflation and reiterated that fundamentals of economy are strong and India will continue to attract investment. \u201cThe weight of fuels like petrol, diesel and other fuels in the total CPI-Combined is only 2.52%,\u201d Sitharaman said, adding that the CPI- combined inflation in June 2021 was 6.26%, as against the average CPI-combined inflation of 6.16% during 2020-21.<\/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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426736","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=426736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}