New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- The Labour Bureau earlier this week released its monthly All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (AICPI-IW) numbers for July 2026, stating that it increased by 1.3 points to stand at 153.2.

Further, year-on-year (YoY) inflation for the month of July 2026 stood at 4.57% as compared to 2.66% in July 2025, the Ministry of Labour and Employment's department said in an official release.

The AICPI-IW index is updated monthly. It measures retail inflation based on fluctuations in the price of goods and services consumed by industrial workers. The release added that the numbers are calculated based on retail prices collected from 317 markets across 88 important industrial centres in India.

Data from the AICP...