{"id":231394,"date":"2021-05-31T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/05\/31\/petrol-diesel-rates-at-all-time-high\/"},"modified":"2021-05-31T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:44:04","slug":"petrol-diesel-rates-at-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/31\/petrol-diesel-rates-at-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel rates at all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>A relentless increase in petrol and diesel prices by state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) Monday took rates of two auto fuels to record-high levels across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol price was increased by 29 paise per litre and diesel by 26 paise per litre. After Monday&rsquo;s rate revision, petrol price in Dimapur rose to a fresh high of Rs.92.99 per litre while price of diesel surged to record-high of Rs.87.25 per litre. In the state capital Kohima, prices of petrol and diesel climbed to an all time-high of Rs. 93.94 per litre and Rs.88.02 per litre respectively. The increase in Monday is the 16th increase in prices since May 4, when state-owned oil firms ended an 18-day hiatus in rate revision they observed during assembly elections in states like West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>In 16 increases, petrol price has risen by Rs 3.83 per litre and diesel by Rs 4.42.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel prices differ from state to state depending on the incidence of local taxes such as VAT and freight charges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oil companies revise rates of petrol and diesel daily based on the average price of benchmark fuel in the international market in the preceding 15-days, and foreign exchange rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol, diesel rates at all-time high<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}