[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] The data shows that the food and beverages category saw prices contract 3.7% in October 2025, following up on a contraction of 1.4% in September. File. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Retail inflation fell to a historic low of 0.25% in October 2025, with the government attributing this fall to the first full […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Retail inflation eased to a 75-month low of 2.8% in May 2025, driven downwards by falling food inflation, according to data released on Thursday. Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index was last lower than this in February 2019, more than six […]
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[ad_1] The data shows that inflation in the food and beverages category came in at 2.14%, with vegetable prices contracting 10.98%, pulses contracting 5.23%, and meat and fish prices contracting 0.35% over their levels in April last year. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Retail inflation in India cooled for the sixth consecutive month in April […]
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[ad_1] A file photo of Afghan students protesting in Bengaluru against the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. | Photo Credit: PTI Chaos over Rahul Gandhi’s comments in London as Parliament resumes after break Children of lesbian, gay parents do not necessarily become lesbians, gays: SC informs government Growing up with lesbian or gay parents will not […]
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[ad_1] Image for representation purpose only. As banks’ chase for customers to collect cheap deposits is not fructifying, they are forced to offer inflation-beating real interest rates on fixed deposits now, and State-run banks led by Punjab & Sind Bank tops the chart offering 8-8.50% per annum deposit rate. Banks are forced to offer inflation-beating […]
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[ad_1] Multiple headwinds at varied points of time impacted the Indian economy’s thorough economic revival in the calendar year 2022. The year started with the threat emanating from the Omicron variant which settled towards the later end of the succeeding month. This was followed by the Russian actions in Ukraine and the ensuing disturbances in […]
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[ad_1] Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the Winter Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi, on December 21, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on December 21 said the government is keeping an eye on inflation which is purely “extraneous” nowadays because of the fuel and fertilizer […]
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