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Clear filtersIntroductionThe Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) concluded its third bi-monthly meeting of FY2026-27 on 5 August 2026 and announced the results on 6 August 2026. The committee voted unanimously — 6...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive statistical reform, the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) strictly and officially revised the fierce absolute base year of the Consumer Price...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive inflationary warning for the national economy, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry strictly and officially released the macroeconomic metrics for June 2026, reveali...
India’s Retail Inflation: Analyzing the March 2026 TrendsIndia's retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), witnessed a slight uptick, rising to 3.4% in March 2026 from 3.21% in February. Despite this...
The Union government has notified the inflation target for 2026-2031 under the Flexible Inflation Targeting (FIT) framework. The target stays at 4% Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, with a tolerance band of 2% to 6%....
MoSPI reported retail inflation of 2.75% for January 2026, the first reading under the new Consumer Price Index series with 2024 = 100. The new series replaces the 2012 base and draws on the Household Consumption Expendi...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation announced new base years for India's main economic indicators. Gross Domestic Product and the Index of Industrial Production move to a 2022-23 base, while the Consu...
The National Statistics Office released a beta Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for eSankhyiki, India's national portal for official statistics. MCP allows AI tools to query datasets in real time without downloading f...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released details of a new Consumer Price Index series, moving the base year from 2011-12 to 2023-24. The revision draws on the Household Consumption Exp...
India ended its Consumer Price Index series with 2012 as the base year and will launch a new CPI series with 2024 as the base year; the NSO released the final December 2025 data under the old base, with the new series ef...
