{"id":660577,"date":"2026-05-16T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660577"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:15:33","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-up-by-rs-3-cng-by-rs-2-further-hike-likely-no-change-in-piped-gas-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-up-by-rs-3-cng-by-rs-2-further-hike-likely-no-change-in-piped-gas-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices up by Rs 3, CNG by Rs 2, further hike likely; no change in piped gas yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Amid mounting losses, public sector oil firms announced the much-anticipated increase in petrol and diesel prices, raising it by around Rs 3 a litre across metros on Friday, which was lower than expected. Piped kitchen gas prices were, however, left unchanged.Oil company executives did not rule out the possibility of a further increase in petrol and diesel prices, but that will depend on a green light from the govt, including extent and timing.<\/p>\n<p>The hike for the two auto fuels will only partially cover the losses of state-run oil retailers with ratings agency Crisil estimating under-recoveries at Rs 10 a litre for petrol and Rs 13 for diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Amid mounting losses, public sector oil firms announced the much-anticipated increase in petrol and diesel prices, raising it by around Rs 3 a litre across metros on Friday, which was lower than expected. Piped kitchen gas prices were, however, left unchanged.Oil company executives did not rule out the possibility of a further increase in petrol and diesel prices, but that will depend on a green light from the govt, including extent and timing. The hike for the two auto fuels will only partially cover the losses of state-run oil retailers with ratings agency Crisil estimating under-recoveries at Rs [&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-660577","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\/660577","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=660577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660580,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660577\/revisions\/660580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}