Wholesale prices rose by 0.16% in August, the first increase in five months, shows government data

Potato prices rose by as much as 82.93%, while onion prices fell by 34.48%.

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· Sep 14, 2020 · 02:48 pm

Retail inflation rises to 6.93% in July due to high food prices

The retail inflation figure for the month of June was revised to 6.23% from 6.09%.

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· Aug 13, 2020 · 07:55 pm

Retail inflation rises to 6.09% in June, shows government data

A bigger increase in prices of some food items and transportation contributed to the rise in retail inflation for June.

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· Jul 13, 2020 · 07:06 pm

Retail inflation rate revised to 5.84% for March, but data for April not released

The Centre said that retail food prices grew at 8.76% in March – 8.88% in rural areas and 8.59% in urban areas.

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· May 12, 2020 · 08:43 pm

Wholesale price inflation fell to 1% in March, government data shows

Fuel and power prices declined 1.76% in March due to falling demand in the face of lockdown restrictions.

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· Apr 15, 2020 · 01:45 pm

Retail inflation drops to 5.91% in March – lowest in four months, shows government data

The drop was due to fall in vegetable prices.

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· Apr 13, 2020 · 10:22 pm

Wholesale inflation declined to 2.26% in February, shows government data

Month on month, prices of potato showed a decline of 20.48%, and those of onion by 41.05%.

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· Mar 16, 2020 · 01:24 pm

Retail inflation declined to 6.58% in February, government data shows

Consumer food price inflation fell from 13.63% in January to 10.81% in February.

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· Mar 12, 2020 · 06:25 pm

RBI governor rules out spike in inflation due to Budget proposals

Retail inflation spiked to 7.59% in December 2019, the highest since May 2014, government data released earlier this week showed.

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· Feb 15, 2020 · 05:49 pm

Wholesale inflation rose to 3.1% in January as food articles continued to become dearer

Primary goods as a category became dearer by 10.01%, compared to January 2019.

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· Feb 14, 2020 · 01:04 pm

Wholesale inflation rose to 2.59% in December, onion prices up 455% in a year

Petrol prices rose by as much as 69.69%, mirroring the increase in retail prices of the fuel, which stood at 60.5% in December.

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· Jan 14, 2020 · 01:14 pm

Priyanka Gandhi criticises Centre for rising inflation, says ‘BJP has picked pockets of poor’

Congress leader P Chidambaram, meanwhile, said the sliding economy is an even greater threat to India than the Citizenship Amendment Act and the NPR.

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· Jan 14, 2020 · 12:41 pm