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GDP base year reset: Are India's data quality concerns finally being addressed?

New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- India is set to adopt a new GDP series with 2022-23 as the base year, replacing the 2011-12 series currently in use. While base revisions are a routine statistical exercise, this... Read More


From capex cuts to liquidity crunch: The worrying signals from the economy

New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- India's economy is entering the final stretch of FY26 amid rising uncertainty. While US tariff flip-flops continue to cloud the global outlook, fresh domestic signals have kept p... Read More


Isolated spikes, broader calm: Decoding the first month of India's CPI reset

New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- India's newly rebased Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January 2026 paints a picture of inflation that is more nuanced than dramatic. With the base year updated to 2024 from 2012,... Read More


Global news wrap: Monetary policies, emerging market shares, China's GDP

New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- Every month, Mint's Plain Facts section brings out an update on key global data to thread together the biggest developments in the world that are worth paying attention to. The ac... Read More


Rural economy gets spending boost in Budget with allocations to jobs scheme

New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- The Union Budget 2026-27 gave a massive spending boost to the rural economy, thanks to a sharp increase in the allocations for the government's flagship jobs scheme-Mahatma Gandhi... Read More


How Economic Survey projections stack up against actual GDP growth

New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- The Economic Survey has struck a cautious tone this year, factoring in global risks and uncertainties against domestic resilience while outlining the outlook for the year ahead. ... Read More


India drops to sixth among emerging markets in December as global headwinds bite

New Delhi, Jan. 25 -- India slipped to the sixth position on Mint's emerging market tracker in December 2025, as weakness across multiple external indicators dragged its composite score lower despite ... Read More


Why India's latest GDP number may matter less than usual

New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- India has entered the final stretch of measuring its economy using a statistical framework that is more than a decade old. On 7 January, the statistics ministry released the firs... Read More


India's retail inflation inches up to three-month high of 1.3% in December

NEW DELHI, Jan. 12 -- India's retail inflation rose to 1.3% in December from 0.7% in November, data released by the statistics ministry on Monday showed, as food deflation moderated and favourable bas... Read More


Global news wrap: Monetary policy updates, Venezuelan oil, US growth surprise

New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- Every month, Mint Plain Facts brings out an update on key global data to thread together the biggest developments in the world that are worth paying attention to. The accompanying... Read More