A customer hands over a pineapple to a vendor at a roadside shop decorated with plastic Vishu Konna flowers (scientific name: Cassia fistula) ahead of the Vishu festival in Kochi, India, on April 14, 2026. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images India's consumer price inflation in April rose for the sixth straight month to 3.48% from 3.40% in March, even as the government kept prices at the pump steady to shield consumers from rising global oil prices. The headline inflation number was below economists' expectations for a 3.80% rise in the consumer price index, as per a Reuters poll. Food inflation, a key constituent of the country's consumer price index, hit 4.2%, up from 3.87% in March, India's Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation said in a release . The latest inflation reading may matter less than its trajectory, Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, told CNBC's Inside India on Tuesday.…