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New Delhi27 minutes ago copy link Yesterday’s big news was related to AC. Buying AC before summer has become expensive. Big AC companies like Daikin, Voltas and Blue Star have increased the prices by up to 15%. At the same time, during the war between America, Israel and Iran, India will not face shortage of…
New Delhi40 minutes ago copy link Today i.e. on January 12, retail inflation (CPI) figures for the month of December will be released. According to experts, retail inflation is likely to increase to between 1.6% to 1.7% in December 2025. Earlier in November it was at 0.71%. Whereas in October it was at 0.25%, which…
In this Special Report, India Today Global Editor Pranay Upadhyaya analyses the escalating economic unrest in Iran. The protests, sparked by a failing economy, have spread to rural provinces, with at least seven people reported dead. The demonstrations are described as the most significant since the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests. Upadhyaya highlights that the unrest…
New Delhi: Above-normal monsoon rains and improved sowing conditions are expected to support a benign food inflation trajectory in the second half of the Financial Year (FY) 2026. However, an adverse base is likely to push food inflation higher next year (FY27), according to ICICI Bank’s Global Markets sectoral update on the outlook for wholesale…
New Delhi: India’s Wholesale Price Index (WPI) or wholesale inflation has “bottomholesale inflation bottomed out, may still remain negated out” and will probably gain slight momentum from November onwards, even as it may still remain in negative territory for most of the remaining months of 2025-26, Union Bank of India said in a report. The…
New Delhi: India’s inflation rate based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined further to 0.25 per cent in October as the impact of the GST rate cut brought down the prices of goods and services during the month, according to figures released by the Ministry of Statistics on Wednesday. The retail inflation eased further,…
New Delhi: Based on the trends seen in the movement of essential commodities, economists on Friday said that CPI inflation in October is likely to moderate further to 0.4 per cent-0.6 per cent, compared with 1.5 per cent in September, supported also by a favourable base. The Bank of Baroda (BoB) Essential Commodities Index (BoB…
New Delhi: Pakistan’s inflation surged to 6.2 per cent in October — the highest in a year — amid floods and Afghan border closures affecting food supplies, a recent media report said. The surge was caused by floods in Punjab and ongoing closures of key trade crossings with Afghanistan, especially at border points such as…
New Delhi: The year-on-year inflation rate for agricultural labourers and rural Labourers stood at -0.07 per cent and 0.31 per cent, respectively, in September, figures released by the Ministry of Labour and Employment showed on Saturday. The All-India Consumer Price Index for agricultural labourers decreased by 0.11 points to 136.23, while the index for rural…
Washington: Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve. Trump told…