Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said prices of perishable items have come down and are well within the tolerance band. To a query raised by AIADMK’s M Thambi Durai on the rise in retail inflation, during the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha today, she detailed the interventions made by her government to keep […]
The rise in prices of onions and tomatoes pushed up the cost of vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis by 10 per cent and 5 per cent respectively in November over the last month, according to a report by CRISIL. This is a rise of 9 per cent in the cost of the vegetarian thali in November […]
India’s consumer price index (CPI) – retail inflation may increase from the RBI’s tolerance limit of 6 per cent in November from 4.87 per cent in October, according to Barclays’ estimates. “We estimate that CPI inflation rose in November to 6.15 per cent year-on-year (YoY), a sharp reversal from the moderating trajectory over the past […]
The National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation (NCCF) has joined forces with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to make chana dal and onions more affordable for consumers in the Delhi NCR region, as per a media release. Chana Dal, a crucial dietary component for many households, is being offered in 2 KG lots at Rs […]
Amid rising prices of onions in parts of India, the central government has started releasing the staple vegetable from its buffer stock. The central government had earlier decided it will maintain 3 lakh tonne of onions in the 2023-24 season as buffer stock. In 2022-23, the government maintained 2.51 lakh tonne onion as buffer stock. […]
Onions worth USD 523.8 million were exported from April to December 2022, a 16.3 per cent increase on a yearly basis, Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Sunday. Currently, there is no restriction or prohibition on the export of onions, and the trade policy of onions is under ‘Free’ category. Only the export […]
