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India's retail food inflation eases to 7.97 per cent; Picture for representational purpose only (Photo: DC archives) Mumbai: India will find it difficult to support new global customs rules without an assurance and visible outcomes" that a ...

Consumer prices rose at a slightly slower pace across most of the world's largest economies in June, while falling food and steady energy prices left Europe alone in confronting very low inflation. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

It is hoped that Mr Modi’s Budget will incentivise the creation of cold storages, godowns and creation of an efficient supply chain from farm to table as it would cut down wastage of essential items It is hoped that Mr Modi’s Budget will incentivise the ...

With food prices increasing far outstripping the official inflation rate more needs to be done to support small-scale farming and agricultural business. This is according to Julie Smith, research and advocacy coordinator at the Pietermaritzburg ...

A higher weight of food items in the consumer price index has kept retail inflation at elevated levels in the country, according to official data. The high inflation in India owes to “higher weight for the food basket (about 50 per cent)” as against 14 ...

Three weeks after Union finance minister Arun Jaitley blamed hoarders for the rise in food inflation and asked the states to take measures to crackdown on hoarding and black marketing to rein in prices, the BJP government in Rajasthan, however, disagrees with ...

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday maintained its forecast for 2014 U.S. food price inflation at 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent, close to the historic norm, even while raising its projection for pork and seafood ...

Taking stock of grain The government has an unholy problem of plenty on its hands. The Food Corporation of India's (FCI) stocks of wheat and rice have risen to a never-before high of 610 lakh tonnes, nearly twice the amount required under safe ...

A file photo of the BSE building in Mumbai. Photo: HT Mumbai: US markets maintained their upward momentum as positive surprises from global manufacturing data and generally well-received earnings reports once more outweighed lingering geopolitical ...