{"id":240496,"date":"2021-10-16T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/10\/16\/fuel-prices-touch-new-record-highs\/"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:31:53","slug":"fuel-prices-touch-new-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/16\/fuel-prices-touch-new-record-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices touch new record highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>For the third straight day, the state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) hiked the prices of petrol and diesel on Saturday taking retail rates to new record highs across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to a price notification of OMCs, the prices of both petrol and diesel were increased by 35 paise per litre.<\/p>\n<p>After the latest rate revision, petrol price in Dimapur has climbed to all-time high of Rs.103.91 per litre while diesel rose to highest-ever level of Rs.96.36 per litre. In the state capital Kohima, prices of petrol and diesel increased to record high of Rs.104.91 per litre and Rs.97.17 per litre respectively.<\/p>\n<p>With this hike, petrol is now at Rs 100-a-litre mark or more in all state capitals, while diesel has touched the 100-level in a dozen states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since ending of a three-week long hiatus in rate revision in the last week of September, this is the 15th increase in petrol price and the 18th time that diesel rates have gone up.<\/p>\n<p>Shedding the modest price change policy, state-owned fuel retailers have since October 6 started passing on the larger incidence of cost to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel prices touch new record highs<\/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-240496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240496","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=240496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}