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

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

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...

It breached the RBI’s comfort level on the back of costlier food items; according to data released by the NSO, inflation in the food basket was 5.01%...

Worse, the composite PMI index — manufacturing plus services — also sank to 48.1 from 55.4 in April...

Surprise 1.6 per cent real GDP growth in fourth quarter helps close out a Covid-wracked annus horribilis...

There is rising speculation that the economy will contract about 7.5 per cent rather than the 8 per cent contraction forecast in late February...

The consumer price index (CPI) based retail inflation stood at 5.03 per cent in February...

The rate of price rise in the food basket accelerated to 3.87% in Feb against 1.89% in the preceding month, according to data released by the NSO...

The rate of price rise in the food basket accelerated to 3.87% last month...