Retail inflation climbs to 2.75% in January 2026 under new CPI series

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Food terms  ostentation  was astatine  2.13% year-on-year ⁠in January. File

Food terms ostentation was astatine 2.13% year-on-year ⁠in January. File | Photo Credit: Reuters

India’s cardinal ostentation complaint accelerated ​to 2.75% successful January connected higher ‌food and precious metallic prices, the ​maiden people nether a ⁠revised information series showed connected Thursday (February 12, 2026), returning to the Reserve Bank of India’s people set for ‌the archetypal clip since August.

The caller bid changes the ‌weighting of cardinal components specified arsenic ‌food ⁠and housing, portion moving ⁠the basal twelvemonth to 2024 from 2012 to amended seizure changes successful depletion patterns ​over the years.

Annual retail ‌inflation was astatine 1.33% successful December nether the aged basal twelvemonth of 2012, authorities information showed. A ‌Reuters canvass had projected retail ​inflation astatine 2.4%.

Food terms ostentation was astatine 2.13% year-on-year ⁠in January.

The authorities has not shared comparable information for cardinal components nether ‌the caller series.

Among the astir notable changes nether the caller series, the authorities has sharply chopped the value of food, 1 of the astir volatile components of ‌the retail terms index, to astir 37% from ​around 46%.

The cuts successful depletion taxes by Prime Minister ⁠Narendra Modi’s authorities past twelvemonth are expected ⁠to support ostentation successful check, portion an interim commercialized woody ‌with the U.S. has improved marketplace sentiment.

Published - February 12, 2026 04:35 p.m. IST

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