New Delhi, Apr 16 : The rate of Inflation in India for the week ended April 4 fell to a 30-year low of 0.18 percent, from 0.26 percent a week earlier, government data showed on Thursday.
However, the prices of a number of food articles such as pulses, cereals, processed fish, common salt, tea, coffee, tobacco, soft drinks and liquor increased.
As a whole, the food prices went up by 1.2 per cent on weekly basis and 7.29 per cent on yearly basis.
Moreover, the cost of vegetables is 25 per cent more than it did a year ago.
New Delhi, April 16 : The Election Commission of India on Thursday expressed satisfaction on the first phase of polls held in 15 States and two Union Territories by describing it "more or less peaceful". 
New Delhi - Indian equity markets closed in the red Thursday with the bellwether Sensex index shedding 3 per cent and falling below 11,000 as monthlong general elections got under way.
New Delhi, Apr. 16 (ANI): Union Ministers P Chidambaram and Mani Shankar Aiyar and Tamil Nadu PCC Chief K Thangkabalu figure in the list of 14 Congress candidates from Tamil Nadu released here by the Central Elecion Committee of the party. 
New Delhi - An Indian court Thursday appointed a new lawyer to defend Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman suspect captured during the Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed over 170 people in November, news reports said.
