Sat Nov 14, 9:30 AM ET

An Indian shopworker fills a plastic bag with lentils in Amritsar on November 7. India's inflation jumped in October, according to a new national price measure, increasing pressure on the central bank to start reversing aggressive interest rate cuts. (AFP/File/Narinder Nanu)

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