After banning wheat exports four months ago, India on Saturday put severe restrictions on the overseas shipment of wheat flour, maida, semolina and wholemeal wheat flour in order to curb rising domestic prices.

India's ban on wheat export will not prevent export to neighbouring countries and countries that might wish to procure the current produce to supplement their domestic food security policies, at the request of their governments, said a statement of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.

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