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The retail inflation in February was 5.1%, while inflation in the food basket was at 8.66%. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on April 5 said food price uncertainties continue to weigh on the inflation trajectory going forward, even as it retained 4.5% retail inflation projection for the current fiscal. In its first bi-monthly monetary…
The spike in food prices has kept the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) worried even though overall inflation has moderated to a certain extent. On April 5, the Central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.50%. This is the seventh time that…
Grocery item put on display for sale at a market, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma India’s inflation woes are not over yet but food price spikes may be “transitory”, the Finance Ministry said on August 22, attributing the latest spike in headline inflation to global uncertainties triggered by the termination…
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