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A scene at a vegetable market in Delhi. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA India’s retail inflation stayed under the Reserve Bank of India’s median target of 4% for the second successive month in August, even as it inched up marginally to 3.65% from an upwardly revised 3.6% in July. August’s inflation pace is the…
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A fruit vendor tends to customers at a fruit and vegetable wholesale market in Mumbai, India, February 8, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Retail inflation increased to 5.08% in June as kitchen items became dearer, according to government data released on July 12. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based retail inflation was 4.8% in May…
A similar easing was recorded in pulses, whose prices rose 17.7% in March, 2024, from 18.5% in February. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma India’s retail inflation moderated to a ten-month low of 4.85% in March from 5.1% in February, but food inflation remained sticky at 8.52%, little changed from the 8.66% recorded in the…
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Unfortunately, ‘wise’ , ‘efficient’ and ‘government expenditure’ don’t usually feature in the same sentence. | Getty Images | Photo Credit: Getty Images “The Indian economy is expected to grow at an average rate of 6.7% per annum until the end of the decade,” CRISIL said in its latest report. The economy will grow at this…
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RBI governor Shaktikanta Das delivers the plenary address at the ‘Kautilya Economic Conclave’, in New Delhi, on October 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das on October 20 stressed that the monetary policy must remain actively disinflationary to ensure that the decline in inflation from its peak of…
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Food inflation stood at around 10% in August. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA India’s retail inflation is likely to have retreated below 6% in September after two months over the central bank’s tolerance threshold, thanks to cooling prices for most essential commodities and food items, barring pulses that are seeing a sustained uptick in…
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In recent years, the credibility of some of NSO’s data, especially the results of various household surveys traditionally carried out by the National Sample Survey Office have come under a cloud, with even top government officials questioning their approach and outcomes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme…
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Vegetables on sale at Azadpur Mandi in New Delhi on July 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s retail inflation hardened in June to a three-month high of 4.81% from 4.31% in May, driven by a spike in food price inflation to 4.5% from less than 3% in the previous month, owing to rising costs…
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The story so far: On September 9, the Centre instituted a ban on the export of broken rice. Additionally, it mandated an export duty of 20% on rice in husk (paddy or rough), husked (brown rice) and semi-milled or wholly-milled rice. The measures do not affect export of basmati or parboiled rice. The Secretary at…
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