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A spurt in demand for dairy products amid an almost stagnant milk output in the last one year has led to tight supply situations and elevated prices, industry experts said, and warned that rates may remain firm this summer. The Centre, along with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), is monitoring the supply-demand gap in dairy products and will take a decision on imports depending on the situation. India is the world's largest milk producer. The output stood at 221 million tonne in 2021-22, up 6.25 per cent from 208 million tonne in the previous year. However, the production in 2022-23 is estimated to remain flat or witness slight growth. While announcing the monetary policy, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said, "milk prices are also likely to remain firm going into the summer season due to tight demand-supply balance and fodder cost pressures". The RBI governor had also pointed out that consumer price inflation has increased since December 2022, driven by price press

Updated On: 07 Apr 2023 | 5:41 PM IST

Effectively the prices of 651 medicines will come down by 6.73%; WPI-linked price rise allowed this fiscal is 12.2%; about 870 formulations fall under the essential category

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 3:40 PM IST

The government has proposed we should have more storage space for LNG so that when prices are lower we should store, and supply when there is crisis

Updated On: 27 Mar 2023 | 12:21 PM IST

Maruti Suzuki India on Thursday said it will increase prices of its model range in April to partially offset the impact of "overall inflation and regulatory requirements". The auto major, however, did not share the quantum of the price hike it intends to implement from next month. The company continues to witness increased cost pressure driven by overall inflation and regulatory requirements, the auto maker said in a regulatory filing. While the company makes maximum effort to reduce cost and partially offset the increase, it has become imperative to pass on some of the impact through a price increase, it added. The company has planned this price increase in April, 2023, which shall vary across models, Maruti Suzuki India stated. Already several automakers, including Honda Cars, Tata Motors and Hero MotoCorp, have announced increase in prices from April. The Indian automobile industry is currently working to make their products meet the second phase of BSVI emission norms. From

Updated On: 23 Mar 2023 | 2:00 PM IST

While discounts have come down, pricing gap still large between incumbents and new players

Updated On: 23 Mar 2023 | 9:47 AM IST

Google-owned YouTube has announced that it's raising the price of its TV subscription from $64.99 per month to $72.99 per month due to rising content costs

Updated On: 17 Mar 2023 | 1:01 PM IST

FCI sold 0.92 million tonnes since Feb 1, netting around Rs 2,290 crore

Updated On: 03 Feb 2023 | 11:46 PM IST

Parag MIlk foods follows Mother Dairy and Amul; hikes milk prices of Gowardhan brand by Rs 2 per litre

Updated On: 02 Feb 2023 | 11:59 PM IST

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday announced a Rs 10 per quintal hike in sugarcane price, raising the crop's rate to Rs 372 a quintal. The new price will come into force from the current crushing season. Khattar said that safeguarding the interest of farmers is the utmost priority of the state government. "I urge the farmers that the prices have been hiked and now they should bring their sugarcane to the mills so the mills can run smoothly. Closure of sugar mills is neither in the interest of the farmers nor of the mills," he said. Crushing at sugar mills had recently come to a halt as protesting farmers had stopped supply of sugarcane by locking the main entrances of the fourteen mills in the state. The farmers had been demanding a hike in the sugarcane's state advised price from Rs 362 to Rs 450 per quintal. According to an official statement, the Chief Minister said though the current sugar price has not increased as expected, Haryana is giving high prices

Updated On: 25 Jan 2023 | 4:20 PM IST

Favourable forex variation, softening commodity prices and higher non-operating income drive performance, consolidated revenue jumps 26.9% to Rs 29,918 crore

Updated On: 24 Jan 2023 | 11:27 PM IST

Oil prices rose on Friday on optimism that the U.S. Federal Reserve will ends its tightening cycle, buoying the economy and boosting fuel demand

Updated On: 20 Jan 2023 | 9:35 AM IST

In December last year, the company had said it would hike prices of its vehicles to offset the impact of rising input costs

Updated On: 16 Jan 2023 | 11:34 AM IST

Gold prices rose on Thursday to near an eight-month peak, helped by a weaker dollar, as investors braced for a U.S. inflation report expected to provide clues to the Federal Reserve's rate-hike path

Updated On: 12 Jan 2023 | 6:00 PM IST

State-owned NMDC on Monday announced that it has hiked the prices of iron ore lumps by Rs 200 to Rs 4,300 per tonne. The country's largest iron ore miner has also increased rates of iron ore fines by Rs 500 to Rs 3,410/tonne, NMDC said in a regulatory filing. The prices are effective January 1, and exclude royalty, district mineral fund (DMF), National Mineral Exploration Trust (DMET), cess, forest permit fee and other taxes, the company said. Lump ore or high-grade iron contains 65.53 per cent Fe (iron), while fines are inferior grade ore with 64 per cent and less Fe content. In the last price revision announced on November 30, NMDC had fixed the rate of the lump at Rs 4,100 per tonne and that of fines at Rs 2,910 a tonne with immediate effect. Iron ore is one of the key raw materials used in the manufacturing of steel, and any movement in its prices has a direct impact on the rates of the steel, an alloy widely used in segments such as construction, infrastructure, automobile an

Updated On: 02 Jan 2023 | 3:37 PM IST

War, weather and excess liquidity impacted Bharat, though year-end saw things looking up a bit

Updated On: 30 Dec 2022 | 2:04 PM IST

To secure Germany's gas supply, liquefied natural gas terminals were being constructed to create new infrastructure for imports

Updated On: 29 Dec 2022 | 9:37 AM IST

It will be the costliest in Gurugram, with a kg of CNG priced at Rs. 87.89 from today

Updated On: 17 Dec 2022 | 9:46 AM IST

According to experts, the skyrocketing electricity prices over the past year are primarily fuelled by the rising gas prices

Updated On: 10 Dec 2022 | 10:23 AM IST

The company said the Indian rupee pricelist changes to harmonise its prices for commercial on-premises software and online services between India and the Asian region, effective February 1

Updated On: 05 Dec 2022 | 1:02 PM IST

The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India on Friday said it will increase prices of its models with effect from next month. In a regulatory filing, the company said it continues to witness increased cost pressure driven by overall inflation and recent regulatory requirements. While the company makes maximum effort to reduce cost and partially offset the increase, it has become imperative to pass on some of the impact through a price increase, it added. The company has planned the price increase in January 2023 which shall vary across models, the auto major said without disclosing the exact quantum of the increase.

Updated On: 03 Dec 2022 | 12:19 AM IST