Food Items

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In Pics: A look at some food items you should not refrigerate

Know about foods, including vegetables and fruits, and substances that should never be stored in a fridge.

Chart of the Day | With inflation remaining high, the RBI’s real policy rate is now -3.6 percent

Inflation is being driven by higher prices of vegetables, pulses, meat, fish, eggs, edible oils, gold, silver, fuel and alcohol

Need goals to shield farm sect from vagaries of nature: RBI

Raghuram Rajan's comments came a day after he surprised investors with a steeper-than-expected interest rate cut to juice up economic growth.

'RBI to stand pat on Aug 4; rate cut by March '16'

The Reserve Bank is likely to keep interest rates on hold in the next month's monetary policy meet, but may slash the key lending rate by a 50-75 basis points by March 2016, Morgan Stanley on Thursday said.

Govt faces heat over subsidy on Parliament canteen food

For instance, the cost for procuring raw items for a dish like vegetable stew comes to about Rs 41 while the MPs are getting it for just Rs 4, which is a subsidy of about 90 percent.

Industry seeks rate cut by RBI as inflation remains -ve

Inflation, based on Wholesale Price Index, remained in negative territory for the seventh month in May, registering a decline at (-)2.36 percent on account of subdued prices of food items, fuel and manufactured goods.

Inflation will not be a significant challenge: FM

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says steps taken by the government has kept food prices low and pro-active govt will always keep food prices low.

Unseasonal rains to push CPI to 6% in Q2 2015: Nomura

While on-the-ground prices in March were contained and are not yet a significant cause for inflation concern, the past four episodes of unseasonal rain suggest that there are upside risks to food inflation, and therefore CPI inflation, in the next three months, Varma added.

Why GST will not answer all our problems

Question is: is GST an unadulterated blessing, as some of its advocates assume? For answers, look at who is pushing the idea hardest.

Modi, Putin to meet today to ink pacts on energy, defence

Putin is likely to seek deeper economic engagement with India to try to minimise impact of sanctions against Russia by the US and its Western allies over the Ukraine issue.

Retail inflation for industrial workers at 11.47% in Nov

The all India CPI-IW for November rose by 2 points and pegged at 243. On one month percentage change, it increased by 0.83 percent between October and November compared with 0.46 percent between the same two months a year ago.

Here's what you can expect from RBI's October 29 meet

Nitin Vyakaranam of arthayantra.com discusses the expectations from the Reserve Bank's monetary policy meet on October 29.

Retail inflation for factory worker inches to 10.68% in May

Retail inflation for industrial workers rose to percent in May on the account of increase in prices of cigarettes, food items, liquor, electricity charges and allopathic medicines.

'IKEA will not be allowed to sell food items in India'

Global furniture major IKEA will be allowed to run cafes and restaurant within its single brand stores in India but not sell food items, Parliament was informed today.

Retail inflation for factory workers rises to 9.55%

Retail inflation for industrial workers moved up marginally to 9.55 per cent in November on account of surge in the prices of food items, cooking gas, medicines and bus fares.

Food prices may go up due to diesel price hike: Industry

Retail prices of essential food items, including wheat and edible oils, are expected to increase marginally across the country due to a rise in the cost of transport following diesel price hike by over Rs 5 per litre, industry bodies said.

Pakistan plans allowing petrol imports from India

The Pakistani government is expected to bring out a notification next month allowing import of certain goods, including petrol and food items from India, Energy Secretary Ejaz Chaudhry said on Friday.

CPI at 107 points in May, select food items and fuels up

Select food items like milk, tobacco, fuel and clothing became more expensive in May, leading to a marginal rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to 107 points during the month.

Need for mechanism to deal with sudden spurt in prices: FM

Worried over sudden spurt in prices of food items, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today made a case for setting up a mechanism to take advance corrective measures to deal with such problems.