{"id":446691,"date":"2021-11-01T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446691"},"modified":"2021-11-01T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:18:02","slug":"candles-burn-a-hole-in-the-pocket-with-rise-in-petroleum-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/candles-burn-a-hole-in-the-pocket-with-rise-in-petroleum-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Candles burn a hole in the pocket with rise in petroleum prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Lighting up homes with candles will be a more expensive proposition this Kali Puja-Diwali following rise in prices. The astronomical rise in international crude oil rates and the subsequent fuel price rise in India has led to a hike in crude derivatives such as liquid paraffin wax, the principal ingredient in making candles.<br \/>\nPrice of paraffin wax has increased by 30% in the last three months. As a result, a pack of 10 candles that used to cost Rs 18-Rs 20 is now retailing for Rs 25-Rs 30. The bigger packs of 24 candles that earlier used to cost Rs 50, now costs Rs 65-70. Decorative floral candles which come in boxes of four, six and 10 now range anything between Rs 80-Rs 300.<br \/>\n\u201cThe price of candles has increased significantly in the last few months, mostly due to the rise in price of petroleum by-products. The whole sellers have increased the prices of candles of different varieties by 25%- 30% this year, forcing us to increase the prices as well,\u201d said Arun Singh, a seller at Old China Bazar market in Burrabazar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Lighting up homes with candles will be a more expensive proposition this Kali Puja-Diwali following rise in prices. The astronomical rise in international crude oil rates and the subsequent fuel price rise in India has led to a hike in crude derivatives such as liquid paraffin wax, the principal ingredient in making candles. Price of paraffin wax has increased by 30% in the last three months. As a result, a pack of 10 candles that used to cost Rs 18-Rs 20 is now retailing for Rs 25-Rs 30. The bigger packs of 24 candles that earlier used to cost [&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-446691","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\/446691","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=446691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}