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Article: Costlier food items push inflation to 0.61 per cent.
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- May 21, 2009
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Costlier food items push inflation to 0.61 per cent
New Delhi, May 21 (PTI) Driven by the rising prices of essential food items like cereals, tea, spices and fruit and vegetables, inflation inched up to 0.61 per cent for the week ended May 9.
Besides, the manufactured goods like sugar, gur, imported edible oil, steel ingots and synthetic yarn too became dearer during the week which witnessed inflation move by 0.13 per cent from 0.48 per cent in the previous week.
The rate of price rise a year ago, however, was as high as 8.57 per cent.
This is the 10th week in a row when inflation stood below the one per cent mark indicating softer ...