Jan. 7: Notwithstanding the failed predictions of the past year, the government still believes that inflation figures will ease by March. Speaking to a news agency, planning commission’s deputy chairm

Jan. 7: A lethal combination of fear about an interest rate hike and the result of an opinion poll sent the equity markets into a tailspin on Friday. On Thursday, India saw very high food inflation nu

Jan. 6: The high food prices in India comes at a time of a perfect storm. Global food prices have also risen sharply over the past few months. The global food import bill in 2010 is close to the peak

Jan. 6: It hadn’t been a Merry Christmas for consumers last year, with prices shooting through the roof. Well, it’s now official. Food inflation, which measures the rate at which food prices are goin

Dec. 30: Soaring onion prices pushed food inflation to a 10-week high of 14.44 per cent for the week ended December 18, a development that may prompt the Reserve Bank to hike key policy rates next mon

Dec. 23: It may not come as a surprise to consumers, but food inflation — which measures the pace of price rise for agricultural commodities, is up sharply. The past few weeks have seen prices of spec

Dec. 9: A week after declining to an 18-month low, food inflation rose again, albeit marginally, to 8.69 per cent for the week ended November 27 on back of rise in prices of rice, onions, fruits and

Dec. 2: Food inflation, which measures the pace of increase in prices, slipped to single-digit at 8.60 per cent for the week ending on November 20 as kharif crops hit the market. It is for the first t

Oct. 28: Food inflation dipped sharply to touch 13.75 per cent — down 1.78 percentage points — for the week ended October 16, on improved supplies. However, economists said the RBI will still raise sh

Sept. 23: Food inflation rose for the fourth straight week to 15.46 per cent for the week ended September 11, as heavy rains and floods disrupted supplies of essential items.

While prices of cereals