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Core consumer price inflation seen at around 4.5% in June

This is the second consecutive month that the retail prices have cooled down

May CPI inflation spikes to 19-month high of 5.76%

CPI inflation for April was 5.47%, revised upwards from 5.39% earlier

March CPI eases to six-month low of 4.83%; Feb IIP rebounds to 2%

Food inflation eased slightly to 5.21% in March and manufacturing shows marginal growth of 0.7% in February

Letters: Downfall of the CPI

Allow me to make some observations about Vikram Gopal's review of the book, The Communist Party of India and the Indian Emergency by David Lockwood (March 31). The policies adopted by the Communist Party of India (CPI), when it was undivided as well post split, were totally Soviet Union-centric. This caused the downfall of the party.Since inception, the CPI's standard policy had been to seek guidance from the erstwhile Soviet Union. Nothing wrong with that, as several well-meaning politicians the world over thought that Lenin and subsequently, Stalin were messiahs. These politicians believed that by following their dicta and doing their bidding, the goal of socialism would be achieved.The Imperialist War, which started in 1939, was termed the People's War in 1941 at the behest of the then Communist International (Comintern), the policy-making body of the Communist world. The Comintern gave this dictum, as Adolf Hitler opened the Eastern Front on June 22, 1941, and attacked the Soviet U

Some understanding between Congress and Left in WB, says CPI leader

Veteran CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta did not elaborate on his remark