{"id":286950,"date":"2018-05-21T11:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T06:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286950"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T06:12:44","slug":"prices-of-petrol-and-diesel-at-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prices-of-petrol-and-diesel-at-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices Of Petrol And Diesel At Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices of Petrol and Diesel on Monday touched a record high of \u20b976.57 per litre for petrol and \u20b967.82 per litre for Diesel in the national capital, as oil companies raised prices for the Eight day in a row.<br \/>\nPrice varies across States, depending on local taxes. Price of Petrol in Kolkata increased to \u20b979.24 a litre, \u20b984.40 a litre in Mumbai and \u20b979.47 a litre in Chennai, while Price of Diesel in Kolkata reached at \u20b970.37 a litre, in Mumbai \u20b972.21 a litre and in Chennai \u20b971.59 a litre.<br \/>\nFuel prices were on a halt for almost three weeks due to Karnataka elections, but since May 14, just 2 days after the elections, prices have been revised upward every day and have reached record high.<br \/>\nPrices of petrol and diesel in four metros are as follows:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/petroldiesel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-286951 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/petroldiesel-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"petroldiesel\" width=\"415\" height=\"159\" data-id=\"286951\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices of Petrol and Diesel on Monday touched a record high of \u20b976.57 per litre for petrol and \u20b967.82 per litre for Diesel in the national capital, as oil companies raised prices for the Eight day in a row. Price varies across States, depending on local taxes. Price of Petrol in Kolkata increased to \u20b979.24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[1713,429,1492,1714,71,1493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}