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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicPrice hike

Topic: Price hike

Why egg prices are increasing across the country

The once-daily food staple has witnessed a 25 to 50 per cent price increase in markets across the country, with parts of the capital selling eggs for Rs. 10 per piece.

Disney sees higher costs to create content after Hollywood pay raises

The media conglomerate expects its fiscal 2024 capital expenditure to total roughly $6 billion and spend on produced and licensed content to be about $25 billion.

Juxtaposition of promises & the ‘dwindling trust’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Terminated employee says ‘I’ll be back’ & for scientific method of eating mangoes, contact Akki

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Different baskets, weights, items measured — Why 2 inflation indices are saying different things

Retail inflation went up from 5.7% in December to 6.5% in January, largely driven by food prices, while India's Wholesale Price Index based inflation fell to 2-year low of 4.73% in January.

Why you, yes you, needn’t worry about taxpayers’ money & Humpty Dumpty had a great (stock) fall

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

As cooking oil prices rise, Indian households spend more, look for cheaper alternatives, survey shows

Survey by LocalCircles also found that 17% were cutting discretionary spending to afford the oil and 1 in 2 households are dipping into savings to buy it.

So many ‘festivals’ & not enough celebrations, plus Twitter’s idea to introduce edit button

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Growing food mountains mean India needs to move beyond shortage mentality

Hike in rice procurement prices & milk subsidies will encourage more output, when policy should be pointing farmers the other way.

Government duties, not international oil price hikes are to blame for the high fuel prices

The Modi govt has not passed on the benefits of a steep fall in global oil prices to consumers; instead it raised the excise duty, leading to fuel price hikes.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.