The central bank governor projects cooling the red-hot inflation, which has hovered above 9 percent since March last year, to 7 percent by June next year.
With heavy reliance on irrigation, the Boro rice season begins in November-December with seedbed preparation, followed by planting in January-February and harvesting in April-May ...
The domestic equity benchmarks ended with modest losses on Thursday. After hitting the day's high of 24,675.25 in early trade, the Nifty slipped as the session progressed to end below the 24,550 mark.
As per provisional closing data, the S&P BSE Sensex declined 236.18 points or 0.29% to 81,289.96. The Nifty 50 index fell 93.10 points or 0.38% to 24,548.70.