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The price of inflation
The announcement that inflation has touched 11.05 per cent — the highest rate since 1995 — could not have come at a worse time for the United Progressive Alliance government. A political controversy is raging over the nuclear deal ...

Truce offers fragile hope
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which came into effect on the morning of June 19, is likely to prove fragile. However, the agreement underpinning it indicates that the two sides are capable of dealing with each other in a practical way. ...

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What is happening in South Africa?
By Parvathi Vasudevan

The situation mirrors the frustration among the vast majority of poor black South Africans. They assume that local jobs which are exclusively theirs are being “stolen” by illegal and cheap labour mostly from Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Ethiopia.

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Fertilizer blues: from market yard to police yard
By P. Sainath

All transactions in the police yard occur under intense public scrutiny. In the marketplace, dealings are more opaque.

Domestic inflation, result of imported inflation
By Ashwani Kumar

Enhanced consumption and demand caused by an increase in per capita income have put further pressure on prices.

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Style, substance and serious slips
When readers communicate with me, I find they (at least most of them) have one aim: to see their paper is better. That is my aim too — ever since I began interacting with readers more than 30 years ago. That principle has gained added ...

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