NEW DELHI: India’s inflation rate fell lower than analysts’ expectations while factory output inched higher, official data showed on Wednesday, adding pressure on the central bank to further cut interest rates.

Consumer prices cooled to 3.78 percent in July from a year earlier, according to the statistics ministry, lower than the 4.4 percent predicted by a Bloomberg survey.

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