{"id":1289,"date":"2026-05-15T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:37:54","slug":"india-wholesale-inflation-jumps-to-8-3-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/15\/india-wholesale-inflation-jumps-to-8-3-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"India Wholesale Inflation Jumps to 8.3% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wholesale price inflation in India rose sharply to 8.3% in April, according to data released by the country\u2019s Ministry of Commerce and Industry.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that inflation stood at 3.88% in March, meaning the increase in April marks a significant jump within a single month \u2014 the highest surge in over three and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>Officials attributed the rise mainly to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and increased energy costs, which have pushed up prices of fuel and manufacturing inputs across the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation, which was only 0.85% in April last year, has risen sharply due to higher prices of crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, and base metals.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Highlights:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fuel and electricity inflation surged to 24.71%, the highest in 42 months<\/li>\n<li>Food inflation rose slightly to 1.98%<\/li>\n<li>Non-food inflation increased to 12.18%<\/li>\n<li>Manufactured goods inflation stood at 4.62%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Economists also warn that overall inflation could reach around 9% in May if the current trend continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wholesale price inflation in India rose sharply to 8.3% in April, according to data released by the country\u2019s Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The report shows that inflation stood at 3.88% in March, meaning the increase in April marks a significant jump within a single month \u2014 the highest surge in over three and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}