Onion pushes food inflation to 14.4%

Food inflation rose to a 10-week high in mid-December on the back of soaring onion, vegetable, fruit and other commodity prices prompting the government to raise its year-end headline inflation forecast to 6.5%.

Data released by the commerce and industry ministry on Thursday showed the food price index rose 14.44% in the week to December 18, accelerating from the previous week's 12.13%.