New Delhi, June 16 -- India's wholesale inflation rate dropped to a 14-month low of 0.39 per cent in May 2025, down from 0.85 per cent in April, according to official data released on Monday.

This decline was largely driven by a broad-based easing in prices of food items, fuel, and manufactured goods.

The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation for food items slowed to 1.72 per cent in May from 2.55 per cent in April.

Key contributors included vegetables, whose inflation contracted sharply by 21.62 per cent, and onions, where the inflation rate dropped to 14.41 per cent from 0.20 per cent. Pulses inflation moderated to 10.41 per cent, while potatoes saw a deflation of 29.42 per cent.

Fuel and power inflation also contracted furthe...