Mumbai, May 21 -- Growth across India's private sector economy faded slightly halfway through the first fiscal quarter, with the latest HSBC Flash PMI figures showing weaker increases in total new orders, international sales, employment and business activity. After retreating in April, input price inflation ticked higher, but firms limited the pass-through of additional cost burdens to clients by lifting output charges to a lesser extent. Service providers outperformed manufacturers and experienced softer inflationary pressures. Registering 58.1 in May, the HSBC Flash India PMI Composite Output Index - a seasonally adjusted index that measures the month-on-month change in the combined output of India's manufacturing and service sectors - ...