Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation softened to 2.26 per cent in February on the back of cheaper food items and vegetables, the government data showed on Monday. In January, the WPI inflation...

Wholesale prices-based inflation accelerated to a 10-month high of 3.10 per cent in January mainly due to costlier food articles, particularly onion and potato, official data showed on Friday.The whol...

The Kamrup (metro) administration on Friday said the price of onions here was fixed at Rs 70 per kg for Friday and will drop further in the coming days.“The price of onions at the source has decreas...

After onion, potato prices have also started heading north.The tuber, which was available in market at Rs 15 per kg a month ago, is being sold at Rs 25 per kg and more at some markets in the steel cit...

Spiralling onion rates may have given some ammo to the Opposition in this ongoing Assembly election, but the kitchen staple looks likely to stay on its three-digit price perch long after poll results ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in two rallies at Rajmahal and Mahagama in tribal heartland Santhal Pargana on Thursday, described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as someone who was turning India into a s...

Calcutta police commissioner Anuj Sharma visited Koley Market, a wholesale hub in Sealdah, on Tuesday and enquired about onion prices, a day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee had done so at Jadubab...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday visited Jadu Babu’s Bazar in Bhowanipore to enquire about the onion price.The surprise visit came on a day the state government started distributing onions f...

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