India`s wholesale price index in July rose 1.88 percent from a year earlier, after easing for four months, government data showed on Monday.
The rise compares with a 1.3 percent increase forecast by economists in a Reuters poll and a provisional 0.9 percent rise in June - the slowest pace since July 2016.
Wholesale food prices in July rose 2.12 percent on year, compared with a 1.25 percent fall a month earlier, the data showed.
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Updated: Mon, Aug 14, 2017
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