The data released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation on Tuesday showed manufacturing to have expanded 20.6 per cent compared with a growth of 32.1 per cent a year ago...

The manufacturing sector, which constitutes 77.63 per cent of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), grew just two per cent...

Rising inflation has sparked debate among global central banks as they mull monetary policy responses to spur growth in pandemic-pummelled economies...

Retail inflation declined to 4.35 per cent in September, mainly due to lower food prices, according to government data released on Tuesday...

The surge was mainly because of a low-base effect, good performance by manufacturing and mining sectors...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 6.26 per cent in June and 6.73 per cent in July 2020...

The manufacturing sector — which constitutes 77.63 per cent of the index of industrial production (IIP) — grew 34.5 per cent, according to NSO data...

As regards the factory output, the Index of Industrial Production rose sharply by 29.3 per cent in May against a decline of 33.4 per cent in the corresponding month of 2020...

The government has held back the release of the complete IIP data for April, as was done for the same month last year because of the Covid-19 induced lockdown...

The eight infrastructure sectors of coal, crude, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity had contracted by 37.9 per cent in April 2020...