{"id":68128,"date":"2024-08-01T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T04:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=68128"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T04:58:23","slug":"govt-reduces-petrol-price-by-over-rs6-per-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/govt-reduces-petrol-price-by-over-rs6-per-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt reduces petrol price by over Rs6 per litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>islamabad<br \/>\nThe federal government on Wednesday reduced the petrol price by Rs6.17 per litre for the next fortnight after a drop in oil rates in the global markets, according to a statement issued by the PM Office.<br \/>\nThe new prices will be effective from August 1.<br \/>\nThe Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) worked out the consumer prices for the upcoming fortnight, based on international prices and exchange rate variations, the notification read.<br \/>\nAfter Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s approval, the petrol price was fixed at 269.60 from Rs275.60 per litre with a reduction of Rs6.17.<br \/>\nThe new price of high-speed diesel (HSD) will be Rs272.77 from the existing rate of Rs283.63 per litre following a reduction of Rs10.86.<br \/>\nThe kerosene price was reduced by Rs6.32 per litre which reduced its price to Rs177.39 from Rs183.71 per litre.<br \/>\nSubsequently, the light diesel oil (LDO) rate was decreased to Rs160.53 per litre as opposed to the current rate of Rs166.25 per litre following a cut of Rs5.72 per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>islamabad The federal government on Wednesday reduced the petrol price by Rs6.17 per litre for the next fortnight after a drop in oil rates in the global markets, according to a statement issued by the PM Office. The new prices will be effective from August 1. The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) worked out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68141,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68128\/revisions\/68141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}