Retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 0.71 per cent in November against the multi-year low of 0.3 per cent in October , government data showed on Friday. With this, experts feel another round of policy interest rate (repo rate) cut is possible.

“The increase in headline inflation and food inflation during November 2025 is mainly attributed to increase in inflation of vegetables, egg, meat and fish, spices, fuel and light,” the Statistics Ministry said. The headline number has been below the median rate (4 per cent) of targeted inflation range of 2 per cent to 6 per cent for ten successive months. November is the second successive month of below 1 per cent inflation rate.

Core inflation (headline inflation minus food and fuel inflation) stood at 4.2 per cent in No

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