Reduced weightage for food, clothing, education is a structural attack against the working class, exposing the government’s pro-corporate bias, said the trade union.

If market watchers get out their magnifying glasses, they can certainly find some evidence of tariffs impacting inflation in various goods, but those goods are such a small part of the overall CPI ...

The 2024 series for calculation of Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation has lowered the weightage of food items to 36.8%, compared with 46% earlier. And since the food prices are largely benign, ...