After poor rains were being blamed for a price rise in essential commodities like rice and pulses, it is now the state’s power crisis that is leading to hike in rates. Twenty-one out of the 22 items,

Prices of several essential agricultural commodities have increased by more than 10 per cent in the last one month, according to figures released by the state civil supplies commission. The price hike

Consumers are feeling the pinch of increasing prices of essential food items such as rice, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables which have shot up by 40 per cent in the last one month and the prices of a