India’s CPI Retail Inflation Live Updates: Will inflation dip further in August?
NEW DELHI, 15/06/2025: People seen busy buying vegetable at a market in New Delhi. File Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma /The Hindu
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ndia’s Retail Inflation 2025, Retail Inflation outlook for August 2025 updates: Retail inflation dipped to an 8 year-low of 1.55 per cent in July. Further, there is decline of 55 basis points in headline inflation of July, 2025 in comparison to June, 2025. It is the lowest year-on-year inflation rate after June, 2017.
Reserve Bank of India, which aims to keep inflation in a 2%-6% tolerance band, has cut rates by 100 basis points so far this year but held them steady at its last meeting.
The inflation hit 6.21 in October 2024 and has been falling every month since then. The inflation was recorded at 2.82%, 2.1% and 1.55% in June, July and August respectively. CPI inflation could end its downward trend and slightly increase to 2.1% in August due to a fading “base effect” and rising food prices, according to a Reuters poll, compared to an 8-year low of 1.55% in July.
- September 12, 2025 09:31
India Inflation Live Updates: India’s wholesale inflation likely turn positive in August after record low in July: UBI Report
Wholesale inflation in India likely turned positive in August 2025, rising to 0.45 per cent year-on-year after recording a contraction of -0.58 per cent in July, according to a report by Union Bank of India (UBI).
India’s wholesale inflation likely turn positive in August after record low in July: UBI Report
Union Bank of India report predicts positive wholesale inflation in India, driven by food, fuel, and core segments.
Published on September 12, 2025
