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  Retail inflation inches up to 2.92% in April due to spike in food prices

  Business | May 13, 2019 18:09 IST

  The inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) 2.86 per cent in the previous month and 4.58 per cent in April 2018, said the data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

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  Retail inflation edges up to 2.86 per cent in March on costlier food articles

  Business | April 12, 2019 18:50 IST

  The consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation was at 2.57 per cent in February this year. On yearly basis, it was 4.28 per cent in March 2018.

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  Retail inflation rises to 4-month high of 2.57% in February

  Business | March 12, 2019 18:03 IST

  Retail inflation rose to four-month high of 2.57 per cent in February, mainly driven by higher food prices.  

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  Retail inflation rate drops to 2.05 per cent year-on-year: Govt

  Business | February 12, 2019 17:56 IST

  The decline was due to a fall in food prices and smaller increases in fuel costs.

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  Lower fuel prices ease India's December retail inflation to 2.19%

  Business | January 14, 2019 19:32 IST

  The Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) deflation reversed marginally to (-)2.51 per cent in December, from (-)2.61 per cent in the previous month.

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  Lower food prices ease India's October retail inflation

  Business | November 12, 2018 18:31 IST

  Even on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in October 2018 was lower than in the corresponding period of last year, when retail inflation stood at 3.58 per cent.

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  Retail inflation cools to 10-month low of 3.69% in August 2018

  Business | September 12, 2018 19:32 IST

  In October 2017, CPI inflation was at 3.58 per cent and it has remained above RBI’s targeted rate of 4 per cent since then.

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  Retail inflation to average 4.4 per cent this fiscal: Report

  Business | August 15, 2018 12:23 IST

  The factors that are likely to impact inflation number going forward include volatility in the global financial markets, oil prices, MSP pass-through and staggered impact of HRA increases by states.

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  RBI expects food prices to drive retail inflation to 4.8% in second half of FY19

  Business | August 01, 2018 15:48 IST

  On MSP hike, RBI said there is a considerable uncertainty and the exact impact would depend on the nature and scale of the government's procurement operations.

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  Retail inflation hits five-month high of 5% in June despite easing food prices

  Business | July 12, 2018 20:17 IST

  The increase in inflation has reduced possibilities of an interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank in its upcoming monetary policy review. 

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  Retail inflation drops to 4.28% in March, industrial output grows 7.1% in February

  Business | April 12, 2018 17:59 IST

  The drop in retail or consumer inflation was mostly driven by lower food prices, the government said. 

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  Retail inflation dips to 4.44% in February from 5.07% in January; industrial production expands to 7.5%

  Business | March 12, 2018 19:45 IST

  The ease in the inflation number was mostly driven by lower food prices. However, the figure remains higher than the 4 per cent target of the Reserve Bank of India.

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  Retail inflation rises to 17-month high of 5.21% in December

  India | January 12, 2018 18:47 IST

  According to data released by Central Statistics Office (CSO), the inflation rate for the last month was mainly driven by steep hike in food and fuel prices.

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  Retail inflation jumps to 15-month high of 4.88% in November

  Business | December 12, 2017 18:22 IST

  The inflation rate stood at 3.63 per cent during the corresponding period last year. In October, the inflation rate was registered at 3.58 per cent.

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  Retail inflation rises to seven-month high of 3.58% in October

  Business | November 13, 2017 20:53 IST

  Costlier food items, particularly vegetables, pushed up retail inflation in October to seven-month high of 3.58%. The Consumer Price Index-based inflation was 3.28% in September.

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  Marginal drop in food prices as retail inflation static at 3.28% in September

  Business | October 12, 2017 18:58 IST

  On a sequential basis, the country's Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) dropped to 1.25 per cent during the month under review when compared to 1.52 per cent in August 2017.

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  Retail inflation rises to 3.36 pc in August, highest in five months

  September 12, 2017 18:32 IST

  The current rate of inflation is the highest in five months.

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  Retail inflation at historic low of 1.54 pc in June, IIP growth slumps to 1.7 pc

  July 12, 2017 19:33 IST

  Retail inflation in June fell to 1.54 per cent, as compared to 5.77 per cent in the same month last year.

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  Veggies, pulses drag inflation to record low of 2.18 pc in May

  June 12, 2017 22:24 IST

  The CPI based retail inflation stood was at 2.99 per cent in April 2017. In May 2016, it was at 5.76 per cent. The overall food inflation was in negative territory at (-) 1.05 per cent during the month.

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  India's March retail inflation rises, February IIP falls

  April 13, 2017 1:31 IST

  Shrugging off the depressive effect of demonetisation, India's Consumer Price Index (CPI), or retail inflation, during March rose month-on-month at 3.81 per cent, even as factory output in the country contracted by (-)1.2 per cent in February.