Tougher times ahead, inflation could touch 13 %

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    India's annual inflation rate may rise to 13 per cent, warned outgoing chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, C. Rangarajan as he spoke to the media. The country's economy is expected to grow 7.7 per cent in the year to March-end, cooling from the year before and below a recent forecast from the central bank, a government report said on Wednesday.