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wholesale prices rises to 9.68 pc in May as fuel, food, manufactured items see price spike

New Delhi, June 15 (PTI) Wholesale price inflation shot up to 9.68 per cent in May, from 8.26 per cent in April, led by a sharp spike in prices of fuel and power, manufactured and food items. The Commerce and Industry Ministry on Monday released the Wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation data revising the base year to 2022-23, from 2011-12 earlier. Wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation in fuel and power jumped to 30.33 per cent in May as against 24.89 per cent in April. In crude petroleum, inflation was 61.51 per cent in May, as against 56.31 per cent in

TMC calls rebels’ NCPI merger ‘ridiculous’, BJP says exodus reflects party’s ideological vacuum

Kolkata, Jun 15 (PTI) The war of words between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP intensified after dissident TMC MPs announced their merger with the little-known NCPI and pledged support to the NDA, with Mamata Banerjee’s camp dismissing the move as “ridiculous” and the saffron party describing it as evidence of TMC’s deepening crisis. Senior TMC MP Sougata Roy ridiculed the rebels’ decision to merge with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India, a Tripura-based registered unrecognised party, questioning both its political relevance and the dissidents’ ability to justify the move before voters. “Once you betray the party on whose symbol

A tentative deal is reached to end the Iran war and Trump orders a stop to the US naval blockade

ISLAMABAD, June 15, 2026 (AP) — The United States and Iran reached an initial agreement early Monday to open the Strait of Hormuz and further extend a shaky ceasefire in the Iran war, potentially allowing desperately needed oil and natural gas to reach the global market. Details of the deal were not immediately released and Iran signaled implementation would not start until the signing, which key mediator Pakistan said would occur Friday in Switzerland. It could provide a way to end a war that killed thousands across the Middle East, including the top leaders of Iran’s theocracy, and sparked a

‘Compromised PM cannot protect sons of Mother India’: Rahul slams Modi over seafarers’ death

New Delhi, Jun 12 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the deaths of three Indian seafarers in a US military strike on a commercial vessel, saying a “compromised PM” could not protect the sons of ‘Mother India’ as he lacked both the courage and the strength to anger those who took away their lives. In a post in Hindi on X, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha questioned Prime Minister Modi’s silence on the issue. “Three Indians have been killed in US attacks on three ships in international waters within

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