Milk inflation is still stubbornly high at 10.9% in May
India’s consumer inflation could moderate further from April’s 18-month low of 4.7%, with food price rise likely to have cooled further in May even as prices of some items like milk, rice and pulses moved up on a month-on-month basis, economists reckoned. The National Statistical Office will release the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May next […]
Lumpy skin disease has killed over 7,300 animals so far
Over 7,300 cattle have died so far due to ‘Lumpy skin disease’ in eight States, including one Union Territory, and vaccination drive has been stepped up to contain the infection, a senior government official said. Lumpy skin disease is a contagious viral disease, which affects cattle, transmitted by blood-feeding insects, causing fever, nodules on the […]