Food inflation is still very much a problem and needs fixing urgently, but the bad monsoon apparently did not make it worse.
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Food articles inflation at 8.43% compared to 8.14% m-o-m.
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Despite various political leaders, including Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar appealing protesting Jats to maintain calm and peace, the incidents of violence and arson continued during the night in various parts of the state, crippling the normal life in worst affected places like Rohtak, Jind, Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Sonipat, Hisar.
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The price of vegetables in general rose by 77.81 per cent making life difficult for the common man.
Costlier onion and other vegetables pushed up inflation for the third month in a row to 6.1 per cent in August, making it difficult for the RBI to cut rate in the monetary policy review due later this week.
As per latest government data, retail inflation inched up to a 22-month high of 5.77 per cent in June.
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'Tibetans will participate in future conflicts with India (in all probability, some were already present in Galwan).' 'As nobody in India would like to have a deadly fight with Tibetan soldiers and officers, the issue needs to be closely followed,' observes Claude Arpi.
The WPI number follows retail inflation (CPI) data, which had slipped to a record low of 3.78 per cent in July.
While rising food inflation is a matter of grave concern for a significant chunk of the population and for policy makers as well, it marks a turnaround in the fortunes of the farmer, reports Sanjeeb Mukherjee.
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If the pattern over the last three months is going to continue, the likelihood is that both indices will register inflation rates close to current levels over the next few months.
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The government on Tuesday announced a host of measures to tame inflation, which had soared to a five-month high of 6.01 per cent in May.
The most serious recommendations to change the financial year came in the years preceded by deficient rainfall. The Jha committee was formed after droughts in 1979-80 and 1982-83, reports Rishika Pardikar/IndiaSpend.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the decision could cost the government roughly Rs 15,000 crore.
The rise in food inflation was on account of increase in prices of onions, vegetables, cereals and protein-based items.
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Following the meeting, Subbarao said the central bank will look into the latest inflation numbers before coming out with the monetary policy review.
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Governments must encourage micro-irrigation, use of natural manure and pesticides in a big way. Farm income can be doubled by reducing cost as much as by increasing MSP, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
'There were days when there was no rice at home and we ate only jackfruit seeds.' 'They feel I, a lowliest human being, a tribal, have no right to go abroad and study.' 'The humiliation was so bad that I was broken inside.'
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