Inflation

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das projects 7.2 pc GDP growth for 2024-25, reports eased inflation to 5.1 pc in June

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, says inflation will moderate from July onwards as the monsoon has improved and global food prices…

4 months ago

Retail inflation eases to 4.75 % in May, downward trend continues

India's annual retail inflation eased to 4.75 per cent in May from 4.83 per cent in April, government data showed…

5 months ago

RBI revises GDP growth for FY25 to 7.2 pc, inflation target remains at 4.5pc

The RBI has revised the GDP forecast for the current FY 24-25 to 7.2 per cent from 7 per cent…

6 months ago

PoK: People continue to struggle due to skyrocketing inflation

The recent election held in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has not brought any relief to the people of PoK despite huge promises.…

7 months ago

S&P raises forecast for India’s GDP growth

S&P Ratings has raised its forecast for India’s GDP growth during the current financial year to 6.4 per cent from…

12 months ago

Headline inflation under control due to LPG price cut, vegetable price correction: Govt

While GDP growth remains on track in 2023-24, the declining trend in headline inflation was briefly interrupted in the second…

1 year ago

Can Nawaz Sharif’s return turn around Pakistan’s free-fall economy?

Pakistan, with an inflation rate of 31.4 per cent year-on-year in September, is among the worst affected countries battling surging…

1 year ago

Pakistan’s massive fuel hike comes as a shocker, may trigger social unrest

Barely a day after Pakistan’s interim Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar claimed that the economy in the cash starved nation was…

1 year ago

With fresh crops hitting the markets, is India’s retail inflation set for a sharp decline?

India’s retail inflation measured by consumer price index (CPI), which drastically eased to 6.83 per cent in August from 7.44…

1 year ago

Govt may cut petrol, diesel price by Rs 3-5 a litre around Diwali

Following the recent cut in domestic LPG prices, the Central government may cut petrol, diesel price by Rs 3-5 a…

1 year ago

Pakistanis enraged after caretaker PM says furore over electricity bills is overblown

Public anger in Pakistan is growing like wild fire with the rapidly deteriorating economic. The recent spike in electricity bills…

1 year ago

Pakistan stares at the abyss as IMF conditionalities bite, social unrest also begins to simmer

Pakistan’s political turmoil with a likely delay in general elections has once again led to deepening economic crisis with the…

1 year ago

India’s food inflation set to ease as fresh crops start coming into the markets

Food inflation in India is likely to ease in the next couple of months as supplies of many crops including…

1 year ago

India taps Nepal and Bhutan to ease food shortages, defines roadmap to collar inflation

With the inflation based on the consumer price index touching 7.44 per cent in July up from 4.87 per cent…

1 year ago

PM Modi pledges resolute steps to fight inflation in his Independence Day address

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the nation on the 77th Independence Day speech, took the opportunity to take up…

1 year ago

China’s export-led growth model in trouble amid tepid domestic demand

China’s exports drop of 14.5 per cent in July – the biggest since the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic,…

1 year ago

Will Pakistan follow India’s demonetisation example amid black money surge?

Amid multiple economic challenges, the steady increase in the physical money supply in Pakistan is starting to haunt the Shehbaz…

1 year ago

Pakistan’s middle class braces for tough times amid IMF conditionalities and upcoming elections

Even as Pakistan’s annual inflation rate eased to 29.4 per cent in June -- for the first time in seven…

1 year ago

India’s food prices likely to remain in control as monsoon advances well

As India’s consumer price index (CPI) eased to 4.25 per cent in May – a 25 month low--the country’s food…

1 year ago

Retail inflation falls 2-year low during May in big relief to consumers

India's retail inflation slowed to a more than two-year low of 4.25% in May as food prices eased during the…

1 year ago

Pakistan’s food stocks run low as production dwindles, imports are blocked

Pakistan’s wheat imports have been rising amid slowing production. Rampant hoarding of the grain has further deepened the flour crisis…

1 year ago