Consumer prices rising: Data

New Delhi, Nov 27, 2007 : According to the official data on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Non-Manual Employees or CPI-UNME, the rising prices of food items have pushed up the consumer price index or CPI by 5.5 per cent during the month of October.

A release said that the Food, Beverages and Tobacco group was mainly responsible for the increase in the All-India general index.v

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