Inflation increased to 4.13 per cent for the week ended June 23 compared to 4.03 per cent in the previous week mainly due to rising prices of food articles and manufactured products.
The wholesale price based index stood at 4.84 per cent in the corresponding week a year ago.
Among the food article, prices of maize, fish-marine products, fruits and vegetables
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and pulses became costlier while spices and condiments, poultry chicken, ragi and bajra became cheaper.