Finance

India’s Retail Inflation Rises to 3.21% in February; New CPI Basket Flags Silver Price Surge as Savers Face Shrinking Real Returns on Savings Accounts

India's retail inflation accelerated to 3.21 per cent in February 2026, according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on March 12 — the highest...

India’s Retail Inflation Rises to 3.21% in February; New CPI Basket Flags Silver Price Surge as Savers Face Shrinking Real Returns on Savings Accounts

India's retail inflation accelerated to 3.21 per cent in February 2026, according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on...

RBI Holds Repo Rate at 5.25% After 125 bps Cumulative Cuts; Home Loan Rates Stabilise as April MPC Meeting Approaches

India's monetary policy rate cycle has entered a holding pattern. The Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee, having reduced the repo rate by...

RBI’s New Credit Card Directions Restrict Charges on Total Outstanding Amount; Interest Rates Remain as High as 42–48% Per Annum

The Reserve Bank of India has issued a comprehensive new regulatory framework governing credit and debit card operations, replacing the earlier 2022 Master Direction...

RBI’s Digital Rupee Reaches 7 Million Users Across 19 Banks; Offline Payments Launched, but Full-Scale Rollout Remains Gradual

India's central bank digital currency, the Digital Rupee or e₹, moved beyond a limited closed-user experiment in 2025 to become what RBI Governor Sanjay...

FD Rates Fall to Six-Year Lows After RBI’s Cumulative 100 bps Cuts; Mutual Funds and Deposits Offer Contrasting Trade-offs as Inflation Holds at 3.21%

India's fixed deposit landscape has been fundamentally repriced over the past twelve months. The Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee, which cut the...

With Nine Days to March 31 Deadline, Taxpayers Under Old Regime Must Act; New Regime’s ₹12 Lakh Zero-Tax Threshold Changes the Calculus

For individual taxpayers in India, March 31, 2026, marks the hard close of Financial Year 2025-26 — the final date by which investments and...

From Chatbot to Co-Pilot: How Agentic AI Is Moving From Suggesting Your Finances to Managing Them

Something has shifted in the technology underpinning personal and institutional finance in 2026, and the shift is not incremental. For two years, AI tools...

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