Inflation in the United Kingdom has accelerated to a new 40-year high, driven by rising food and fuel prices that are contributing to a cost-of-living crisis
Rajya Sabha proceeding washed out completely and was adjourned for the day amid continued protest by the Opposition parties led by the Congress over price rise and levy of GST on daily essentials
Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 4 pm on Wednesday amid vociferous protests by Opposition members over price rise and the imposition of the Goods and Services Tax on some daily-use items
When Rajya Sabha proceedings resumed at 2 p.m., the opposition members continued their protest demanding discussion on GST, price rise, Agnipath and other issues.
Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and other opposition members had given notices to discuss Aginpath recruitment scheme for armed forces, hike in GST, price rise and other issues.
In the Rajya Sabha, Congress members trooped to the Well of the House raising slogans as soon as Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu read out the obituary references.
He shared a chart sharing such details and said while the government's debt in 2014 was Rs 56 lakh crore, it is Rs 139 lakh crore in 2022.
The second of a four-part series focuses on how food companies are yet to pass on the benefit of the decline in input prices to consumers
Tata Motors on Saturday said it has increased prices of its passenger vehicle range with immediate effect to partially offset the impact of rising input costs
Pretax profit at world's second-biggest fashion retailer jumped 33% from a year earlier to 4.78 bn crowns ($471 mn) in the Swedish group's second quarter, on sales growth of 12% in local currencies
This comes even as raw material prices cool
Sales in urban areas in May were down 16 per cent and those in rural parts 16.6 per cent (against April)
Seventy per cent of those surveyed saw at least 10 per cent increase in their monthly budget, while 55 per cent expect prices to go up by another 10 per cent in the next three months
Tata Motors on Saturday said it has hiked the prices of its passenger vehicles by an average 1.1 per cent with immediate effect
Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday said it has increased prices of its entire model range by 2.5 per cent with immediate effect. This will result in an increase of Rs 10,000 to Rs 63,000 on the ex-showroom prices across the range, depending upon the model and the variant, the home-grown auto major said in a statement. The price revision is the result of a continuous increase in prices of key commodities such as steel, aluminium, palladium, etc, it added. "The company has taken necessary initiatives to partially offset the unprecedented hike in commodity prices to absorb the impact, passing a minimal percentage of cost increase to customers through a price revision," M&M noted. The company, which sells models like Thar and XUV700, is working with its sales and dealer network to communicate the new prices to the customers appropriately, it added. Earlier this month, the country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has also announced an increase in prices of its entire model
The survey, conducted by Local Circles, got 11,800 responses from citizens across 311 districts of the country
We are, however, seeing an immediate slowdown in sales at urban areas as rural consumers buy smaller packs more frequently: Bizom
Common food items like lemon and tomato, besides medicines which are used in every household have also witnessed a rise in price, he said
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Centre over what he described as "Direct 'Benefit' Transfer to Modi-Mitr"
Accusing the Centre of not doing anything to control price rise of fuel and other essential commodities, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee insisted that a policy should be made to arrest the hike