{"id":478819,"date":"2022-03-25T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478819"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T08:01:54","slug":"fuel-prices-rise-due-to-hike-in-intl-mkt-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-prices-rise-due-to-hike-in-intl-mkt-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices rise due to hike in int\u2019l mkt: Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday sought to defend the  Government over the steep rise in the fuel prices   saying it is due to the increase in its prices in the international market. On another issue, the  Ministry of Minority  Affairsinformed the Lok Sabha that the government was waiting for Saudi Arabia\u2019s signal for \u2018Haj\u2019 to happen this year. <\/p>\n<p>On the matter of price rise , Congress MP Sashi Tharoor pointed out  to the government  that it has not reduced  tax on oil to bring down the fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p>Puri assured that efforts are being made to make fuel available to people at &#8220;affordable prices&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday sought to defend the Government over the steep rise in the fuel prices saying it is due to the increase in its prices in the international market. On another issue, the Ministry of Minority Affairsinformed the Lok Sabha that the government was waiting for Saudi Arabia\u2019s signal for \u2018Haj\u2019 to happen this year. On the matter of price rise , Congress MP Sashi Tharoor pointed out to the government that it has not reduced tax on oil to bring down the fuel prices. Puri assured that efforts are being made to make fuel [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478819","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=478819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}