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India's wholesale inflation turns negative at (-) 0.92 pc for April
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Wholesale inflation in India based on the Wholesale Price Index turned negative in April at (-) 0.92 per cent, official data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed.
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India's retail inflation eases sharply by 1 percentage point in April
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
India's headline consumer price index-based (CPI) inflation (or retail inflation) has gradually declined from its peak of 7.8 per cent in April 2022 to below 6 per cent now - which is below RBI's upper tolerance band.
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'India has managed food inflation very well in difficult global conditions
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The consumer food price index (CFPI) in India moderated to 4.79 per cent in March this year, down from 5.95 per cent in February and 7.68 per cent in March 2022
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Retail inflation in India expected to average at 5.2 pc 2023: Emkay
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Emkay Institutional Equities, a part of Emkay Global Financial Services, expects India will likely witness a sub-five per cent inflation in the early part of 2023, with an average rate of Consumer Price Index at 5.2 per cent for the entire calendar year.
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Consumer Price Index for industrial workers for March stood at 133.3, up 0
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The All-India Consumer Price Index-Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) for March increased by 0.6 points and stood at 133.3, official data showed on Saturday
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Pakistan's weekly inflation reaches all-time high of 47.23 per cent
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) revealed that the increase was particularly driven by rising food prices, which resulted in a 0.51 per cent increase in short-term inflation on a week-on-week basis.
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Wholesale inflation in March cools to 1.34 pc, lowest in 29 months
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to the statement released on April 17, the fall in prices of basic metals, food products, textiles, non-food articles, minerals, rubber and plastic products, crude petroleum & natural gas and paper and paper products contributed to the decline in the rate of inflation in March.
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Soaring inflation hits Pakistanis hard during Ramzan
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
During every Ramzan inflation increases by 500 per cent and this has not changed in the last 75 years. The rise of inflation during Ramzan in Pakistan is very strange because, in countries where the Muslim population is one per cent or even less, the governments supply up to 75 per cent reli
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Sensex extends gains for ninth consecutive days
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
BSE Sensex gained 38 points to settle at 60,431.00 while NSE Nifty surged 14 points to end at 17,826.90 on Thursday.
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PoK: Retired govt employees protest, demands pension hike
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Retired government employees in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's (PoK's) Muzaffarabad town took to the streets demanding a rise in pension and medical allowance as inflation has taken a heavy toll on their everyday lifestyle.
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Benchmark for world food commodity prices fall in March for 12th consecuti
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities, averaged 126.9 points in March 2023, down 2.1 per cent from the previous month and 20.5 per cent below its peak level of March 2022.
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Prices of 651 essential medicines will go down by 6.73 per cent: Mansukh M
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said that the prices of 651 essential medicines which were likely to increase by 12 per cent due to rising wholesale price index (WPI) will now witness a reduction in their retail prices by an ave
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