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Sunday, March 15, 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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.