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Investment banker explains why ₹70 LPA salary 'feels middle-class' in India

Ahuja explained why the cost of living in Indian metros feels completely detached from the country’s inflation numbers.

Updated 263 days ago

8th pay commission likely from Jan 1, but will it reflect in your salary?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Published 281 days ago

India to rework how it calculates inflation, with inputs from Amazon, Flipkart

India's online spending—on the likes of Amazon, Flipkart to Swiggy, Zomato and Netflix, Jio Hotstar—have become large enough to be included in retail inflation data.

Published 346 days ago

India's retail inflation eases to 3.16% in April from 3.34% in March

According to the government, it is the lowest year-on-year inflation since July 2019. (Pic used for representation)

Published 450 days ago

Inflation dips to 3.54%, lowest since August 2019

Shoppers walk inside a shoe store at a market area in New Delhi, India, July 23, 2024. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh (REUTERS)

Updated 723 days ago

Wholesale inflation at 3-year low, falls to -3.48% in May from -0.92% in April

Inflation in food articles eased to 1.51 per cent in May, against 3.54 per cent in April. (representative)

Published 1149 days ago

Retail inflation climbs to 3-month high of 6.52% in January

Retail inflation rose to 6.52 pc in January.

Published 1270 days ago

November retail inflation eases below 6% for the first time this year

The consumer price index (CPI) based retail inflation was 6.77 per cent in October 2022, and 4.91 per cent in November last year.

Published 1333 days ago

'Worst to come... 2023 will feel like recession': IMF warns, cuts India forecast

India's GDP growth slashed to 6.8 per cent by International Monetary Fund (File)

Updated 1394 days ago

‘Democracy is a memory’: Rahul Gandhi, detained, on Congress MPs-cops faceoff

Rahul Gandhi tweeted photographs of Congress leaders protesting in Delhi.

Updated 1462 days ago

‘India seeing death of democracy’: Rahul Gandhi as Congress protests inflation

Rahul Gandhi holds presser in Delhi

Published 1462 days ago

RBI expected to hike policy rates for 3rd time in row in fight against inflation

The second bi-monthly meeting of the RBI Monetary Policy Committee started on Wednesday.

Updated 1462 days ago

Congress's ‘anti-inflation’ protest today amid ED probe in National Herald case

The Congress has been holding protests against the government amid the National Herald case probe against the Gandhis.  (PTI FILE)

Published 1462 days ago

'Disappointing…': Opposition reacts on FM's Lok Sabha speech on price rise

Congress leader Manish Tiwari lashed out at the government for ignoring the concerns raised by the opposition on Monday.

Published 1465 days ago

Govt considers windfall tax on oil and gas giants

This is not the first time India is considering a windfall tax. Policymakers flirted with the idea in 2018, and before that in 2008, when oil prices were on a high, and many Indian oil producers made a killing. Both times, the idea was abandoned, after it was strongly opposed by private oil companies. (AFP)

Updated 1532 days ago

Reboot, not reform, is the key economic challenge

What has changed in the eight years of Narendra Modi and his government have spent in power, is that reform, or lack of it, is not the central parameter on which this government is being judged anymore. (BLOOMBERG PHOTO.)

Updated 1533 days ago

FY23 consumer inflation likely to hit 7.5%, shoot past RBI ceiling of 6%: Report

A woman pushes a shopping cart through the grocery aisle. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Published 1535 days ago

In fight against inflation, govt cuts excise on fuel

The move will reduce the price of petrol by <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>9.5 per litre. REUTERS (REUTERS)

Updated 1537 days ago

Navjot Singh Sidhu rides elephant in Patiala to protest against rising inflation

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu rides an elephant in order to protest over inflation in Patiala

Updated 1540 days ago

April wholesale inflation surges to 15.08%, up from 14.55% in March

Rising consumer inflation has increased the cost of living for average Indians, who are paying higher prices for a range of commodities, from fuel, electronics and transport to basic food items. (REUTERS File Photo)

Published 1542 days ago

Retail inflation rises to 7.8%, highest in 8 years

Experts believe that this combination of tepid economic activity and high inflation poses serious challenges for the Indian economy going forward.

Updated 1546 days ago

Inflation surges to 8-year high, interest rate hike may be on cards

Core inflation, which has remained at more than 5 per cent for 24 consecutive months, in April also touched 95-month high at 6.97 per cent.

Published 1546 days ago

Edible oil industry says govt must talk to Indonesia over palm oil ban

Oil and fats contributed to around 60 per cent of food and beverages inflation in the country.

Published 1564 days ago

Number Theory: India’s growth-inflation challenge in four charts

IMF’s latest WEO expects Indian economy to grow at 8.2% in 2022-23.(Shutterstock)

Updated 1568 days ago

Wholesale inflation shoots up to 14.5% on pricier fuels

A labourer carries a sack of onions at a wholesale market in Kolkata.

Updated 1570 days ago

March high inflation rate due to Russia-Ukraine conflict, says government

A worker holds a fuel nozzle at a petrol pump in Mumbai

Published 1571 days ago

Making sense of inflation and the IIP numbers

CPI growth surged to 6.95% in March, and IIP growth was a muted 1.7% in February. (REUTERS PHOTO.)

Updated 1576 days ago

Cost of living rises in India as companies pass on higher prices to consumers

Companies passing on costs will add to inflationary pressures, but the consumer price-targeting RBI has maintained that the current spike is supply driven and best dealt with by the government.

Published 1584 days ago

Video| In attack on BJP, Jharkhand CM links inflation to female infanticide

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren targeted the BJP-led central government in his latest remarks. (ANI) (File photo)

Published 1594 days ago

Rahul Gandhi's fresh attack on BJP after polls: 'Inflation a tax on all Indians'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi seen in a file photo.

Published 1601 days ago

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