State-run trading firm MMTC has already floated a tender for buying 21,090 metric tonnes (MT) of onions from Turkey and Egypt and the shipments are expected to arrive mid-January

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that her 'I doesn't eat onions' remark was in response to a specific question

While good quality onions were priced at Rs 15,000 per 100 kilogram, normal and low quality was sold at Rs 6,000 per 100 kg

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Holding banners and shouting slogans demanding that the government reduce the prices and \"stop harassing\" the poor, the Congress MPs protested with a basket full of onions

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Her remarks came after an opposition leader made an interruption on the onion price issue while she was speaking about the same

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The Centre has already banned onion exports and decided to import 1.2 lakh tonnes of onions, besides imposing stock holding limit on traders

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The restaurant owners say the spike in onion prices has made it difficult for them to run their businesses prompting them to pass on to the burden to the patrons

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The lowest price of Rs 38 per kg of the bulb was reported from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, the Consumer Affairs Ministry data showed

In a letter to Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Delhi Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain said a government should not be seen as making profit motive over an essential commodity

The government is also facilitating private imports and also relaxed phytosanitary and fumigation norms till December

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