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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 4.45% in July. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Retail inflation increased to 4.82% in August, largely driven by higher food prices, according to government data released on Monday (September 14, 2026). The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 4.45% in July. Food inflation in August increased…
There was little room for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s interest rate-setting committee to manoeuvre during its meeting in early August. Elevated global crude prices over the past few months had already pushed retail inflation beyond the central bank’s 4% target, with headline CPI rising to 4.38% in June, the highest in the current…
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The housing sector saw inflation easing to 2.86% in December 2025 from 2.95% in the previous month. Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Retail inflation quickened to a three-month high of 1.33% in December 2025, which is still significantly lower than the Reserve Bank of India’s lower comfort level of…
A new series of CPI data with a base year of 2024 is scheduled to be released on February 12, 2026. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Monday (December 22, 2025) said that it will release a new series of macroeconomic data with a changed base year for…
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India’s September-quarter GDP data for the current financial year beat all estimates, coming in at 8.2%, higher than 7.8% in Q1 FY26 and well above the year-ago period. This offers fleeting reassurance to policymakers, days after October’s trade data revealed a historic deficit of $41.68 billion, driven partly by a trebling of bullion imports —…
According to the data released by the National Statistics Office, the food inflation declined to (-) 5.02% in October. File. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Retail inflation slipped to a multi-year low of 0.25% in October, driven by the impact of the GST rate cut and subdued prices of vegetables and fruits, government data…
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Retail inflation slipped to 1.54% in September mainly due to subdued prices of food items, including vegetables and pulses. (Image used for representation) | Photo Credit: Reuters Retail inflation fell to a 99-month low of 1.54% in September 2025 on falling food and fuel prices, official data showed. This is once again below the Reserve…
Potato is one of the top five items which showed highest year-on-year inflation at All India level in December 2024 at 68.23%. | Photo Credit: ANI India’s retail inflation eased a bit to a four-month low of 5.22% in December 2024 from 5.5% in November 2024, with food inflation cooling marginally from 9.04% in November…
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Reserve Bank raised the inflation projection for the current fiscal to 4.8 per cent. (Representational) New Delhi: Retail inflation slowed to 5.48 per cent in November compared to 6.21 pc in October, mainly due to easing food prices, especially vegetables, according to government data released on Thursday. According to Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released…
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An official said that initiatives such as transportation through rail to various consuming centres from Maharashtra and the arrival of kharif onions in the market are likely to bring prices further down. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu As the prices of tomato, onion, and potato (TOP), the three essential vegetables in Indian households, remained…
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