Inflation has turned into a frustrating game of whack-a-mole for the Reserve Bank of India. On Wednesday, the policymakers on Mint Street raised the repo rate by another 50 basis points to 4.90 per c...

The Narendra Modi government’s bluff on the surging inflation has finally been called. The Reserve Bank of India has debunked the Centre’s persistent claim that a string of external facto...

Core inflation, which is calculated by excluding ‘‘food and beverages’’ and ‘‘fuel and light’’ from the overall inflation, shot up to 6.8 per cent in Ap...

Retail inflation rate as measured by the consumer price index rose to 5.59 per cent in December from 4.91 per cent a month ago. Retail inflation has been rising since October 2021. In July too the rat...

The bad loan headache is not going away anytime soon for banks. Stress tests of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show the ratio of gross non-performing assets to total assets (gross NPA ratio) will ri...

Retail inflation accelerated to a three month high of 4.91 per cent in November because of a sharp rise in fruits and vegetable prices but remained within the tolerance limit of the Reserve Bank of In...

The Reserve Bank remains focused on bringing back retail inflation to 4 per cent over a period of time in a non-disruptive manner, governor Shaktikanta Das stressed while voting for status quo in inte...

Industrial production grew 11.9 per cent in August mainly due to a low-base effect and good performance by manufacturing, mining and power sectors that surpassed the pre-Covid level. Retail inflation...

Subdued prices of food items such as vegetables pulled down retail inflation for the third month in a row to 5.3 per cent in August, which is within the RBI’s comfort zone. While the Consumer P...

The country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is likely to be 8.8 to 9 per cent in the current financial year, driven by agriculture and industry sectors, Care Ratings said in a report. The c...