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Inflation shoots to 20.4pc in August as food prices keep rising

Inflation shoots to 20.4pc in August as food prices keep rising

The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI), the gauge of changes in the cost of living, released on September 10 by the National Institute of Statistics (NISR) indicates that there has been a general rise in food inflation by 29.2 per cent on annual basis in August.