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Government banned onion exports in 2019 and 2020 for a few months to calm local prices, creating a shortage in neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Surge in onion prices adds another layer of pain for India’s consumers

2 min read . Updated: 19 Oct 2021

Consumption of vegetable oils has trebled over the past 20 years in India. As a result, the country has become the world’s biggest importer of edible oils, with palm oil accounting for 80% of that. Photo: Reuters

Govt cuts import taxes on vegetable oils to calm prices

1 min read . Updated: 13 Oct 2021

Summer crop sowing: India has received 9% below-average monsoon rains since June 1, although in some regions the deficit is as high as 58% (Photo: Reuters)

Summer crop sowing lags in India on scanty rains, raises concerns over yields

1 min read . Updated: 23 Aug 2021

A file photo of Taliban fighters after taking control of Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on Aug. 15, (AP)

India's trade with Afghanistan stalls but likely to resume soon: Officials

1 min read . Updated: 19 Aug 2021

On Tuesday benchmark raw sugar prices in New York hit a 4-1/2-year high of 20.37 cents, supported by fund buying against a backdrop of tightening supplies

Sugar rally could help India to export 6 mn tonnes without subsidy

1 min read . Updated: 18 Aug 2021

(Photo: Bloomberg)

Modi govt likely to withdraw sugar export subsidies from new season

2 min read . Updated: 17 Aug 2021

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India's sunflower oil imports could jump to record as prices dip below soyoil

1 min read . Updated: 09 Aug 2021

Why are vegetable oil prices touching record high and why is India concerned?

3 min read . Updated: 15 Jun 2021

Medics tend to a man with breathing problems inside a COVID-19 ward of a government-run hospital, amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh. (REUTERS)

India’s COVID crisis pushes up the cost of living – and dying

3 min read . Updated: 14 May 2021

A civic worker rest on the back of a vehicle after sanitizing a building in Mumbai (AP)

'Much, much worse' than first wave: Maharashtra hit hard by coronavirus

2 min read . Updated: 06 Apr 2021

Sugar output may drop to a three-year low next season

Pakistan may lift ban on Indian cotton, sugar imports: Report

2 min read . Updated: 31 Mar 2021

Indian mills have produced 25.87 million tonnes of sugar in the current marketing year, nearly 20% more than a year ago as output jumped in Maharashtra and Karnataka, the ISMA said

Indian sugar mills rush to sign export contracts as prices rally

1 min read . Updated: 17 Mar 2021

Posco's steel plant in Maharashtra faces disruption

2 min read . Updated: 12 Mar 2021

Iran's reserves have reduced significantly and 'will be over soon probably because trade has stopped,' said a senior official with IDBI Bank (Photo: Mint)

'India merchants almost halt exports to Iran as its rupee reserves fall'

3 min read . Updated: 04 Mar 2021

Labourers carry sacks containing rice grain from a FCI warehouse to trucks for transportation, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Patna, Saturday (PTI)

India lines up deepwater port for rice, exports to surge amid global shortage

2 min read . Updated: 04 Feb 2021

India imports palm oil mainly from Indonesia and Malaysia and soyoil from Argentina and Brazil. Photo: Bloomberg

India's December palm oil imports jump 4% on duty cut, trade body says

1 min read . Updated: 14 Jan 2021

A man hosts the National Flag as farmers sitting during an ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at the Singhu border in New Delhi. (ANI)

India's protesting farmers hold key to self-reliance in edible oils

3 min read . Updated: 31 Dec 2020

Labourers carry sacks containing rice grain from a FCI warehouse to trucks for transportation, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Patna, Saturday (PTI)

How India's grain policies have stoked FCI's debt binge. Explained here

2 min read . Updated: 29 Dec 2020

Indian consumers avoided gold purchases due to Khar Mass, a period considered to be inauspicious that runs from Dec. 15 to Jan. 14 (Photo: Reuters)

India gold discounts widen, Singapore demand up on festival buying

1 min read . Updated: 28 Dec 2020

File photo: Customer looks at gold earrings at a jewellery showroom. (REUTERS)

India gold discounts widen as consumers avoid big purchases

1 min read . Updated: 25 Dec 2020

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