date:Oct 15, 2013
ints on the day at 8.57 percent, its highest since September 23.
Other data showed consumer prices rose 9.84 percent year-on-year in September, the fastest pace in three months. Economists in a Reuters poll last week had forecast an annual 9.60 percent rise in retail prices.
India is not the only major emerging market wrestling with inflation and high food costs - China's consumer inflation hit a seven-month high of 3.1 percent in September.
But the pace of growth in food prices in India stoo