India’s retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) with base year 2024, was 2.75 percent in January. Food inflation under CPI came in at 2.13 percent. Prices of vegetables like ...

Positive rate of inflation in January 2026 was due to an increase in prices of the manufacture of basic metals, other ...

India rebases its CPI to 2023-24 from 2011-12 with revised weightings and expanded coverage. Here’s how retail inflation is ...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) with base year 2024 has been released. How is its structure different from the earlier series? What other indicators are used to calculate inflation in India?

India’s wholesale price inflation climbed for the third straight month in January 2026, driven by higher food articles, non-food items, and manufactured products.

Explore how wholesale inflation reached a 9-month high of 1.81% in January, driven by rising food and manufactured product prices.

India’s new GDP series ditches broad-based deflators for granular, sector-specific price indices ahead of February 27 release ...

New Delhi: India is preparing to rejig methodology for computing CPI and revamp monetary policy mandate for targeting retail inflation in 2026 after a year of benign price situation due to subdued ...

India’s wholesale inflation gathered pace in January, climbing to a 10-month high of 1.81 per cent, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Monday. The latest reading ...

Clearly, the release of the CPI with an updated base year is a much-awaited, welcome step. Though the index comes out as a single number, much efforts go into the selection of items and their weights ...