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Food Prices: The kitchen budgets are on a tight squeeze. Therefore, the markets are witnessing a change in the spending habits of the consumers. Instead of buying fresh tomatoes, people have shifted to buying small cartons of tomato puree, from fresh ginger to single-use sachets of ginger paste and loose cumin powder to tiny 7-gm sachets, reported TOI.

The project of setting up a disposal plant, meant to handle city’s enormous construction and demolition (C&D) waste, in Dhandari under the Smart City Mission will now cost Rs 7.6 crore against the original estimate of Rs 2.7 crore.

India Manufacturing PMI: New orders and output rose sharply despite the sub-indexes easing moderately from May, driven by both domestic and international demand. The S&P Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to 57.8 in June from Mays 58.7. That marked two years of the index being above the 50-mark separating expansion from contraction.

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This came after a net investment of Rs 43,838 crore in equities in May, Rs 11,631 crore in April and Rs 7,936 crore in March, data with the depositories showed.

Pulses Price Hike: Several factors have contributed to the shortage of tur dal in the market. Firstly, farmers are gradually shifting away from pulses cultivation to high-value cash crops, leading to a decrease in production. Additionally, unseasonal rains also effected the crop.

Kolkata Traffic Police has issued traffic advisory for Saturday, in view of various processions, programmes taking place in parts of city which may affect the traffic movement. A total of two programmes and one procession will take place in the city and accordingly, the traffic police has identified routes where traffic movement may be affected., Kolkata News, Times Now

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Nine people lost their lives in last two days during massive rains in Gujarat., India News, Times Now

The ministry is also in the process of framing guidelines for discouraging the usage of dark patterns, said Rohit Kumar Singh, secretary, department of consumer affairs which comes under the ministry of consumer affairs.