New Delhi: For the week ended August 4, inflation turned down to 4.05 per cent as against to 4.45 per cent in the last week because of lower prices of poultry chicken, moong, fruits, vegetable and some man-made things.
The wholesale prices-based inflation was 5.08 per cent in the matching week of the last year. During the week, the prices of vegetables, fruits and poultry chicken slumped by five per cent each, whereas those of moong and fish-marine descended by one per cent.