{"id":660548,"date":"2026-05-16T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660548"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:08:53","slug":"days-after-state-polls-omcs-raise-petrol-diesel-prices-by-%e2%82%b93-a-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/days-after-state-polls-omcs-raise-petrol-diesel-prices-by-%e2%82%b93-a-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Days after state polls, OMCs raise petrol, diesel prices by \u20b93 a litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: After over two years of putting prices on hold, state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) on Friday raised prices of petrol and diesel around \u20b93 a litre.<\/p>\n<p>The price hike comes 16 days after state assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal ended. Polls in Assam and Kerala were held on 9 April, in Tamil Nadu and the first phase of voting in West Bengal on 23 April, and ended in 29 April with the second phase of polling in West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: After over two years of putting prices on hold, state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) on Friday raised prices of petrol and diesel around \u20b93 a litre. The price hike comes 16 days after state assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal ended. Polls in Assam and Kerala were held on 9 April, in Tamil Nadu and the first phase of voting in West Bengal on 23 April, and ended in 29 April with the second phase of polling in West Bengal.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660548","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=660548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660551,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660548\/revisions\/660551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}