India's food prices are likely to ease, bringing down food inflation from stubbornly high levels, over the next two months as supplies of onions and other vegetables are expected to pick up, industry officials said Thursday. The country's food inflation rate surged to more than 18% in December as vegetable prices, particularly those of onions, spiked after unseasonal rain damaged crops. India's food inflation rate has slightly eased since then, but...
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Deadly 'Congo fever'' kills one more in India
A rare virus has killed its fourth victim in India, health officials said. A 25-year-old doctor died from the Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, also known as the "Congo fever", in the western city of Ahmedabad. The dead include a woman who was infected with the virus, and the doctor and the nurse who treated her at a hospital in the city. The virus has been detected in India for the first time, health...
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More »Call to punish erring doctors to curb female foeticide
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