-Livemint.com In November, the American consumer price inflation (CPI) for urban consumers came in at 6.8%. The last time it was anywhere as high was nearly four decades back in June 1982, when it was 7.1%. It hadn’t even been a year since Mark David Chapman had killed John Lennon. Abba’s final performance and subsequent breakup, which went unannounced, was still a few months away. American and British pop and rock bands...

-The Hindu The Socio-Economic Caste Census, 2011 was organised not as an OBC survey but to get the caste status of all in the country in order to improve the delivery of targeted benefits, the Centre said. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the law negated a caste census and “the Constitution believes in population and not in caste or religion” even as the Centre insisted that data collated during a Socio-Economic...

-The Hindu There is a gap between what the goverment says on the international stage and what it does at home At the 26th session of the Conference of the PARTies (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the developed countries, which continue to be the most responsible for the destruction of the biosphere, resorted to their usual tactics of bullying the less developed world to accept higher targets for...

-The Hindu Business Line Besides global factors, structural inflation, which is sticky, might be setting in. The RBI should be ready November readings for wholesale and consumer price index, the first at a three decade high and the second at a more modest three-month high, are a cause for concern. They raise questions over whether the Monetary Policy Committee’s projections for retail inflation will hold. A 14.2 per cent spike in WPI...

-The Hindu Passage blames ‘feminist revolt’ for teenage indiscipline Students, parents and national politicians have expressed outrage at the content of a reading comprehension passage in a Central Board of Secondary Education’s Class 10 English examination, held on Friday. When Anita (name changed) read the English question paper of her Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination on Friday, she was shocked by the contents of the passage selected for a...