Driven by higher prices of food, vegetable and other consumer items and, an unfavourable base of last year, India's retail inflation in January rose to seven-month high of 6.01%, marginally breaching the RBI tolerance band of 6%.
Inflation is climbing across the world and India is no exception but price rises have stayed relatively tame by historical standards, allowing RBI to leave interest rates unchanged for now.
The electoral fate of nine ministers in the Yogi Adityanath-led government will be decided by voters. Prominent among them are -Srikant Sharma from Mathura, Atul Garg from Ghaziabad, Suresh Rana from Thana Bhawan, Kapildev Agarwal from Muzaffar Nagar and Sandeep Singh from Atrauli.