Continuing rising trend, India’s retail inflation, measured by the consumer price index (CPI) surged to 5.21% in the month of December 2017 as against 4.88% in November 2017. Rural inflation inched up to 5.27% and urban inflation surged to 5.09% in December 2017. CPI food inflation for October also increased marginally to 4.96% versus 4.35% in November.