{"id":660609,"date":"2026-05-16T12:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660609"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:06:07","slug":"ludhiana-hike-in-petrol-diesel-prices-ignites-fear-of-household-budget-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ludhiana-hike-in-petrol-diesel-prices-ignites-fear-of-household-budget-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludhiana: Hike in petrol, diesel prices ignites fear of household budget crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest hike in petrol and diesel prices, effective from Friday, has triggered concern among commuters and middle-class families in Ludhiana, with transport operators warning of an increase infreight charges and consumers expressing worry over rising household expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said state-run oil companies have increased petrol prices by \u20b93 per litre and diesel by \u20b92.94 per litre, while private player Reliance has reportedly raised fuel prices by nearly \u20b95 per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest hike in petrol and diesel prices, effective from Friday, has triggered concern among commuters and middle-class families in Ludhiana, with transport operators warning of an increase infreight charges and consumers expressing worry over rising household expenses. Officials said state-run oil companies have increased petrol prices by \u20b93 per litre and diesel by \u20b92.94 per litre, while private player Reliance has reportedly raised fuel prices by nearly \u20b95 per litre.<\/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-660609","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\/660609","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=660609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660611,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660609\/revisions\/660611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}