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India overhauls inflation framework with new Producer Price Index, revised WPI- US Workers’ paychecks lose buying power for first time since 2022: What is crushing middle-class Americans despite rising wages and bigger paychecks running higher?
- MoSPI proposes Index of Service Production with 2024-25 as base year
- Measures to address the war's fallout lie outside MPC's remit - GoI and RBI must step upThe Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee meets amid a West Asian war. This conflict disrupts supply chains and raises crude oi...05 Apr, 2026, 11.50 PM IST
- Fresh family income survey likely ahead of CPI-IW updateThe Labour Ministry is planning a new survey of working-class families. This exercise will help update the base year for the Consumer Price...23 Mar, 2026, 01.07 AM IST
- New series will better reflect consumption patterns, reduce volatility: RBI GuvRBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra announced a new CPI inflation series based on 2024 prices, aiming to better reflect Indian households' consump...23 Feb, 2026, 08.26 PM IST
- India January CPI: FAQs on what has changedIndia's retail inflation reached 2.75% in January with a new Consumer Price Index series. The base year is now 2024. Food's weight has decr...12 Feb, 2026, 05.06 PM IST
- Careful with new CPI methodologyIndia is updating its Consumer Price Index base year. A key reform involves the housing index. Experts question proposed changes to how hou...06 Jan, 2026, 11.49 PM IST
- India’s economic numbers are getting an upgrade: What’s changing, why it matters, and what the Centre wantsIndia is overhauling its economic measurement systems, incorporating online prices and real-time data to improve inflation, industrial outp...24 Dec, 2025, 01.28 PM IST
- CEA says mindset that India's data estimates being inferior needs to changeChief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran stated that India's GDP estimation methods are not inferior. He urged a change in mindset that ...23 Dec, 2025, 05.45 PM IST
- MoSPI proposes to add free PDS items to inflation indexThe paper recommends creating a single commodity index by combining PDS prices (zero or subsidised, weighted by consumption categories) wit...04 Oct, 2025, 11.17 PM IST
- MoSPI proposes new base years for IIP, GDP & CPIThe government plans to update the base years for key economic indicators. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and Gross Domestic Prod...07 Aug, 2025, 12.43 AM IST
- Rebasing CPI necessary for better inflation targeting: RBI paperThe government needs to expedite its work on the revised consumer price index (CPI) which may help the central bank manage inflation expect...22 Mar, 2023, 12.43 AM IST
- Government should expedite rebasing CPI: RBI paperThe current indices are derived from the consumption expenditure survey (CES) conducted during 2011-2012, long before Inflation targeting w...21 Mar, 2023, 07.37 PM IST
- Retail inflation may force RBI to hold rates: ReportThe RBI is scheduled to announce its next bi-monthly monetary policy on February 6.14 Jan, 2020, 05.10 PM IST
- Seven years after expulsion, Somnath Chatterjee to be back in CPI(M) soonSeven years after his expulsion, veteran Marxist and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee is likely to be reinducted into the CPI(M)...18 Jul, 2015, 08.43 PM IST
- Base year for CPI to be revised this month“In a declining inflation scenario, the new headline CPI may be higher than current CPI by 5 basis points (0.05 percentage points) and in a...23 Jan, 2015, 03.23 AM IST
- Difference in WPI, food inflation and CPI data to remain in short term: Arun Singh, Dun & BradstreetIn an interview with ET Now, Arun Singh, Senior Economist, Dun & Bradstreet, gives his views on the different kind of inflation data.14 Nov, 2013, 03.31 PM IST
- Revised estimates put tourism earning at $9.16 bnDoing away with the existing methodology of calculating foreign exchange earnings, the Ministry of Tourism said its actual earning this yea...26 Dec, 2007, 10.26 PM IST
- Govt earns $9.16 bn from tourism in '07Doing away with the existing methodology of calculating foreign exchange earnings, the Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday said its actual ear...26 Dec, 2007, 08.44 PM IST
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