Indian wholesale price inflation rose 7.80 percent in the year to September 18, easing slightly from the week earlier due to lower food prices, government figures showed on Friday.
The rate was marginally below a median forecast of 7.86 percent in a Reuters poll and compared with 7.87 percent in the year through September 11. It stood at 5.02 percent in the week ended September 20, 2003.
The closely tracked inflation rate has spiralled from 4.32 percent in late April and has been hovering between 7 percent and 8 percent for nine weeks, fuelled by high global oil prices.
The government has taken a series of measures to check inflation, but is reluctant to raise interest rates from three-decade lows for fear of depressing growth.
The government's anti-inflation steps include cutting duties on steel and petroleum products, reducing import tariffs on edible oils and increasing the cash reserves that banks must deposit with the central bank.
In the latest move to cap price rises, the oil ministry asked oil firms this week not to raise the retail price of diesel and petrol despite US light crude prices, a global benchmark, touching a record above $50 a barrel this week.
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