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India's retail inflation inches up to three-month high of 4.91% in Nov

Overall, inflation in the food basket was 1.87% in November compared to 0.85% a month earlier. However, it was significantly down from 9.5% in November 2020

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Retail inflation inched up to a three-month high of 4.91 per cent in November, mainly due to an uptick in food prices, government data showed on Monday.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation, however, remained within the comfort zone of the Reserve Bank of India. The government has mandated the central bank to keep the inflation at 4 per cent (+/- 2 per cent).

The annual CPI inflation was 4.48 per cent in October 2021 and 6.93 per cent in November 2020. It had eased from 5.3 per cent in August to 4.35 per cent in September and then moved up

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