{"id":3084,"date":"2026-10-21T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:04:00","slug":"government-reduces-petrol-price-raises-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Government reduces petrol price, raises diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The government on Wednesday reduced the price of petrol by Rs2.71 per litre to Rs379.31, while increasing the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) by 31 paisa to Rs390.11 per litre, effective October 22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a press release issued by the Petroleum Division, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) revised the ex-depot prices of petroleum products under the federal government\u2019s pricing mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>The Petroleum Division said the revisions were necessitated by global developments, including movements in Platts rates, premiums and incidentals.<\/p>\n<p>The revised prices follow successive changes in petroleum rates earlier this week, with the government adjusting petrol and diesel prices on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <strong>the government has increased the price of petrol by 88 paise per litre to Rs382.02, while the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) has been raised by 53 paise to Rs389.80.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the government reduced the price of petrol by Rs5.16 to Rs381.14 per litre and high-speed diesel by Rs7.69 to Rs389.27 per litre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Wednesday reduced the price of petrol by Rs2.71 per litre to Rs379.31, while increasing the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) by 31 paisa to Rs390.11 per litre, effective October 22. According to a press release issued by the Petroleum Division, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) revised the ex-depot prices of petroleum products under the federal government\u2019s pricing mechanism. The Petroleum Division said the revisions were necessitated by global developments, including movements in Platts rates, premiums and incidentals. The revised prices follow successive changes in petroleum&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}