Lasalgaon

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  In A First, 'Kanda Express' Brings Tonnes Of Onions To Delhi As Prices Soar

  The special rake, equivalent to 56 trucks, departed from Maharashtra's Lasalgaon Railway Station and reached Delhi's Kishanganj Railway Station.

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  "Why Don't You Love Me?": Man Asks 18-Year-Old Before Slitting Her Throat

  A 20-year-old man who allegedly killed a college student he was stalking in Maharashtra's Aurangabad was arrested from his sister's house in Lasalgaon in Nashik's Niphad taluka, a police official said on Monday.

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  "Pak, Others Will Benefit": Sharad Pawar Urges Onion Export Ban Rethink

  In a sudden move, the central government's Department of Commerce on Monday banned "with immediate effect" export of onions as its average trade price in the country's biggest onion market in Maharashtra's Lasalgaon touched Rs 30/kg - double of what it was in March.

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  As Onion Prices Touch Record Highs, Farmers Are Still Making Losses

  What has caused India's onion price spike is now a matter of concern as prices are hovering around Rs 150 a kilogram in several places. NDTV visited Lasalgaon in Nashik district of Maharashtra which is a hub for procurement of onions from farmers and supplies from here are sent across the country.

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  Here We Go Again: Onion Prices Rise Due to Tight Supply

  Onion prices at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra, Asia's biggest wholesale market for the staple, have started rising again due to supply concerns.

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  Onion Prices Fall Below Rs 50 Per Kilogram

  Wholesale prices of onion today fell below the Rs 50 per kg mark at the Lasalgaon in Maharashtra, Asia's biggest onion market, due to curbs on exports and fear of action against hoarding.

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  Why Onion Prices Have Climbed 300 Per Cent

  At Lasalgaon in North Maharashtra, Asia's largest onion market, prices are a whopping Rs 60 per kg. The same quantity last year was selling for Rs 15, indicating a 300 per cent increase.

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  Government Moves to Check Rising Onion Prices, But People Still Feel the Pinch

  As onion prices skyrocket in markets across India, the central government has decided to import the vegetable and has floated a tender for 10,000 metric tonnes which will open on August 27.

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  Rs 4,900 Per Quintal: Onion Prices in Nashik Hit a Two-Year High

  Wholesale onion prices today hit two year high of Rs 4,900 per quintal, after it shot up by Rs 400 at the country's largest bulb wholesale market in Lasalgaon, Nashik.

• How Cartels, Politics, and False Alarms Determine Onion Pricing

  Within moments of our entering Lasalgaon, the biggest of Nashik's 14 onion mandis, a crowd surrounds us. It is the time of auction; farmers have pulled up in tractors and tempos laden with onions, traders walk from vehicle to vehicle assessing the produce before the bids are placed.

• Behind the onion price spike, a cartel of traders in a Maharashtra town

  A powerful traders' cartel working Asia's biggest wholesale market at Lasalgaon town in Maharashtra is believed to be a key factor behind the staggering rise in onion prices.

• Onion prices crash: India's largest hub shuts down

  As onion prices came crashing down, business has stopped at the Lasalgaon market - the largest onion market in the country. Farmers and traders went on an indefinite strike demanding the ban on exports be lifted. ''The supply of onions is more than what the demand is. That is the reason the prices have fallen,'' said Santosh Suryavanshi, an onion t...