Wholesale Price Index: This is highest inflation figure in past eight months as last time wholesale inflation touched 3.1 per cent was in April 2019. Before that, it touched 3.46 per cent in December 2018

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Chidambaram says Centre needs to explain why it wants to sell LIC; asks why has Economic Survey 2020 shifted $5 trillion economy goal to 2030 from current 2024

Sales in major Indian cities fell 15% from 47 million sq. ft. in October 2018 to 40 million sq. ft. in the same month of 2019

Prices of major food commodities have been surging

Private sector banks have installed the largest number of ATM machines in metro cities and urban areas while public sector banks have sharper focus on rural areas

There are enough signs that India's rural sector is on the path to recovery

Private banks' loans and advances grew 25% in 2018/19

Onion prices peaked to Rs 160 per kg in December 2019 but have come down to around Rs 60-70% per kg now

India's growth premium over the emerging economies (EMs) is likely to be lowest since 2012-13, when it had hit record low of 0.1 per cent

Amazon Inc CEO Jeff Bezos visited Mahatma Gandhi's memorial in Delhi soon after he landed in India. Posting a video on Twitter, the world's richest man wrote he paid respects to \"someone who truly changed the world\"; Anil Ambani's bankrupt telecom company Reliance Communications (RCom) and its subsidiaries have finally received bids worth Rs 25,000 crore for its assets from his brother Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio) and UV Asset Reconstruction Company (UVARCL); Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, in a personal LinkedIn blogpost, has said that tensions between nationalism and globalisation will be the most defining trends of the current decade. \"While the march of globalisation is perhaps inevitable, what is certain is that the world is no longer flat,\" stated the billionaire businessman. This and more news on News Blast.Also read: No Indian company in US top 100 patent list; China the rising star

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WPI inflation increases: Onions, which saw prices peak in December, observed an inflation rate of 455.8 per cent against 172.3 per cent in November

India may not face crude oil shortage if the tensions in the middle east escalate even to a war, as many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela or other Mediterranean and Middle East countries can assure supplies to the country

The International Monetary Fund in its latest report has pointed out discrepancies in calculating deflation, which is used to convert GDP at current prices to constant prices

WPI has been continuously declining since the start of the current financial year. It had declined 310 bps from 3.2 per cent in April to 0.2 per cent in October

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation for September remained unchanged at 0.33 percent, the government said