-The New Indian Express These scheduled medicines constitute about 18 per cent of the total domestic pharma retail market, valued around Rs 1.5 trillion. NEW DELHI: Prices of over 800 drugs under the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM), including paracetamol, common antibiotics like azithromycin, doxycycline and medications for hypertension, diabetes and COVID-19 will increase by 10.7 per cent starting Friday. Activists slammed the move saying that it would hit the pockets of...
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Maggi gets costlier as Nestle, HUL hike prices of instant, tea, coffee products
-IndiaToday.in In a disappointment for Maggi, tea and coffee lovers, Nestle and Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) have announced rate hikes for major products. The prices of Maggi noodles, tea, coffee and milk have been increased. In a jolt for consumers, Nestle India and Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) have hiked the rates of their instant, tea and coffee products, according to media reports. MAGGI PRICE * The prices of Maggi have been increased by 9...
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-The Telegraph Analysts said inflationary management had become challenging now amid rising risks to growth Retail inflation rose to an eight-month high of 6.07 per cent in February and remained above the RBI’s comfort level for the second month in a row. Wholesale price inflation — the data was also released on Monday — remained in double digits at 13.11 per cent (February) for the 11th consecutive month. Analysts said inflationary management had become...
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In the absence of income or expenditure-based headcount ratio, the growth in the real wages (i.e., nominal wages adjusted against retail inflation) of the manual workers is considered to be a good proxy to assess the trends in poverty. This is because the manual, unskilled/ semi-skilled labourers exist at the bottom of the pyramid or economic hierarchy, and most of them belong to the social categories Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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-TelanganaToday.com Hyderabad: Prices of cooking oil are on an upwards spiral and have gained up to Rs 25 more per litre. The trade segments attribute the increase in prices to the tightening supplies of sunflower and safflower oils, both called as sun oils, to the Russia-Ukraine war. Also, palm oil imports are getting costlier due to the internal trade restrictions of Indonesia, the biggest producer of palm oil. On the other hand,...
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