{"id":493505,"date":"2022-05-25T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493505"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:00:04","slug":"sri-lanka-hikes-fuel-and-transport-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sri-lanka-hikes-fuel-and-transport-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka hikes fuel and transport prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka increased fuel and transport prices on Tuesday, a long-flagged move to combat its debilitating economic crisis, but the hikes are bound to exacerbate galloping inflation, at least in the short-term.<\/p>\n<p> Power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera said in a message on Twitter that petrol prices would increase by 20 per cent-24 per cent while diesel prices would rise by 35 per cent-38 per cent with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCabinet also approved the revision of transportation and other service charges accordingly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka increased fuel and transport prices on Tuesday, a long-flagged move to combat its debilitating economic crisis, but the hikes are bound to exacerbate galloping inflation, at least in the short-term. Power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera said in a message on Twitter that petrol prices would increase by 20 per cent-24 per cent while diesel prices would rise by 35 per cent-38 per cent with immediate effect. \u201cCabinet also approved the revision of transportation and other service charges accordingly,\u201d he said.<\/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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493505","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=493505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}