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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Use Global Downturn To Cut Chains Binding India

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Use Global Downturn To Cut Chains Binding India

Global growth is poised to drop from 3.1 per cent to 2.5 per cent and inflation to increase from 4.4 to 5.4 per cent as...

1 Jun 2026 9:08 PM IST

AA Edit | Poor Monsoon Forecast Raises Food Inflation Fear

AA Edit | Poor Monsoon Forecast Raises Food Inflation Fear

For many countries, a weak monsoon may be merely a meteorological event, but for India, it is a macroeconomic shock...

14 April 2026 11:06 PM IST

AA Edit | Will Rate Cut Boost Growth?

AA Edit | Will Rate Cut Boost Growth?

Companies will benefit from cheaper working capital and investment loans, potentially encouraging capital expenditure to...

5 Dec 2025 10:12 PM IST

AA Edit | Retail Inflation Fall A Breather

AA Edit | Retail Inflation Fall A Breather

A drastic fall in price was seen for vegetables (-19 per cent), pulses (-11 per cent), and meat and fish (-1.6 per...

15 July 2025 10:30 PM IST

AA Edit | RBI focuses on growth, takes a calculated risk

AA Edit | RBI focuses on growth, takes a calculated risk

As part of this agenda, the RBI led Monetary Policy Committee slashed repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25 per cent

7 Feb 2025 11:20 PM IST

AA Edit | Try to bring down food prices

AA Edit | Try to bring down food prices

After five long years, India's retail inflation fell below the Reserve Bank of India’s comfort level of four...

14 Aug 2024 12:18 AM IST

Food inflation was 2.11 per cent last month, lower than Octobers 3.32 per cent.

Costlier food, fuel push inflation to 3.77 per cent in September

The overall inflation in consumer food basket increased to 0.51 per cent as against 0.29 per cent in August, showed the...

13 Oct 2018 1:10 AM IST

Wholesale inflation in the month of October soared to 3.59 per cent on the back of food and fuel prices. (Photo: PTI)

Inflation likely rose to RBI's four percent target in Sept: report

Wholesale price inflation probably rose to 4.90 per cent in September from 4.53 per cent in August.

10 Oct 2018 12:28 PM IST

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Urjit Patel, started its 2-day meeting on Wednesday.

RBI lowers retail inflation projection to 3.9-4.5 pc for second half...

Inflation is projected at 4 pc in second quarter (July-September) 2018-19, 3.9-4.5 pc in H2 (October-March) and 4.8 pc...

5 Oct 2018 3:44 PM IST

WPI inflation, which reflects the annual rate of price rise, has risen for the second straight month, notwithstanding the cash crunch following demonetisation.

WPI inflation eases to 3.58 per cent in December as veggies price...

Inflation for October has been revised upwards to 3.68 per cent from the provisional estimate of 3.59 per cent.

15 Jan 2018 12:46 PM IST

The decline in retail inflation has been mainly on account of falling prices of vegetables and pulses.

Retail inflation for industrial workers up at 3.97 pc in Nov

Food inflation stood at 3.91 per cent in November against 2.26 per cent of the previous month.

1 Jan 2018 4:39 PM IST

Inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index was 0.90 per cent in June 2017 and 0.63 per cent in July 2016.

Retail inflation for industrial workers rises to 4 per cent in Dec

Food inflation stood at 4.32 per cent against 3.91 per cent of the previous month.

3 Feb 2018 10:45 AM IST