India has launched a revised Consumer Price Index (CPI) with 2024 as the new base year, cutting food weight and boosting services, housing and digital spending components. From OTT subscriptions to ...
Most countries update their inflation baskets every five years to track evolving consumption. India's CPI has relied on 2012 ...
The changes ensure that payments such as dearness allowance or pensions, that are linked to the CPI, will be more closely ...
On Thursday, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released the new CPI series, which showed retail ...
India's retail inflation reached 2.75% in January with a new Consumer Price Index series. The base year is now 2024. Food's ...
A new Consumer Price Index has been launched in India with 2024 as the baseline, cutting back on food weight and highlighting services, housing, and digital sectors.
The weight of food and beverages will be cut to 36.75 per cent in the new consumer price index (CPI) series from 45.86 per cent currently Aimed at making the headline inflation readings less volatile ...
Online media and streaming services (OTT platforms) will now be tracked, while prices of telephone services—both landline and mobile—will increasingly draw on online and e-commerce data. NEW DELHI: ...
Food items, often blamed for sharp volatility in inflation, will carry significantly less weight in determining consumer price index (CPI) levels under the new series to be launched in February 2026.