{"id":726,"date":"2026-05-02T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=726"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:37:27","slug":"fuel-price-increase-announced-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/02\/fuel-price-increase-announced-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Price Increase Announced in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has announced a revision of fuel prices in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, the new prices came into effect from midnight on May 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the revised rates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Octane 92 petrol has been increased by Rs. 12, bringing the new price to Rs. 410.00 per litre.<\/li>\n<li>Octane 95 petrol has been increased by Rs. 15, bringing the new price to Rs. 470.00 per litre.<\/li>\n<li>Auto diesel has been increased by Rs. 10, bringing the new price to Rs. 392.00 per litre.<\/li>\n<li>Super diesel has been increased by Rs. 15, bringing the new price to Rs. 458.00 per litre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These price increases are expected to add pressure on the cost of living for the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has announced a revision of fuel prices in Sri Lanka. According to the announcement, the new prices came into effect from midnight on May 2, 2026. Based on the revised rates: Octane 92 petrol has been increased by Rs. 12, bringing the new price to Rs. 410.00 per litre. Octane 95 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}