{"id":447465,"date":"2021-11-05T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447465"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:09:37","slug":"on-diwali-eve-centre-slashes-petrol-price-by-%e2%82%b95-diesel-by-%e2%82%b910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/on-diwali-eve-centre-slashes-petrol-price-by-%e2%82%b95-diesel-by-%e2%82%b910\/","title":{"rendered":"On Diwali eve, Centre slashes petrol price by \u20b95, diesel by \u20b910"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government on Wednesday announced reduction in central levies on petrol by \u20b95 a litre and diesel by \u20b910 a litre from Thursday, providing major relief to consumers amid spiralling fuel prices, even as it urged states to further bring down the rates.<\/p>\n<p>From Thursday \u2013 when Diwali will be celebrated \u2013 the price of petrol will come down from the current rate of over \u20b9110 a litre in Delhi to about \u20b9105. The diesel rate will be reduced from over \u20b998 per litre to about \u20b988. To be sure, there may be minor variations depending on global oil prices and if there are any additional cuts by state governments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was announced immediately after the Prime Minister gave his nod to providing relief to consumers, tame inflation and boost growth,\u201d an official with direct knowledge of the matter said, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government on Wednesday announced reduction in central levies on petrol by \u20b95 a litre and diesel by \u20b910 a litre from Thursday, providing major relief to consumers amid spiralling fuel prices, even as it urged states to further bring down the rates. From Thursday \u2013 when Diwali will be celebrated \u2013 the price of petrol will come down from the current rate of over \u20b9110 a litre in Delhi to about \u20b9105. The diesel rate will be reduced from over \u20b998 per litre to about \u20b988. To be sure, there may be minor variations depending on global oil [&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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447465","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\/447465","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=447465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}