India, Oct. 13 -- India's retail inflation rate in September 2025 fell to the lowest since June 2017 and below the Reserve Bank of India's tolerance band for the second time this year, strengthening the case for a repo rate cut as India's GDP growth faces pressure of 50% US tariffs.

The consumer price index, or CPI, rose 1.54% from a year earlier last month, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Monday showed. That compares with 1.50% forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey. The index had climbed 2.07% in August, marking the first acceleration in ten months.

This is also the first inflation reading since the government's reduced the GST rate on hundreds of items-from soaps to small cars-in Indi...