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    How an Israeli soldier accused of war crimes in Gaza was tracked down in India

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    Prey, habitat quality play key role in restoring tiger populations

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    A new book examines India’s federal weakening and aggressive centralisation of power

  • Bengal: TMC’s Tapash Chatterjee who lost seat by 316 votes challenges poll result in HC
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    Bengal: TMC’s Tapash Chatterjee who lost seat by 316 votes challenges poll result in HC

  • Exclusion of Dalit converts from Scheduled Caste status revives constitutional dilemma
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    Exclusion of Dalit converts from Scheduled Caste status revives constitutional dilemma

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    Legal eagle Tushar Mehta recounts instances of the famous British humour as seen in law courts

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    Six Uddhav Sena MPs skip party meeting amid speculation of defections

  • Uprooting a forest for a park: The destructive ‘restoration’ of Delhi’s Central Ridge
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    Uprooting a forest for a park: The destructive ‘restoration’ of Delhi’s Central Ridge

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    West Bengal to Maharashtra, party absorption threatens to disintegrate India’s opposition

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    Mumbai is emptying groundwater reservoirs to quench its thirst

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‘Everybody needs to do this’: Star Trek’s William Shatner is oldest man to visit the edge of space

The 90-year-old Shatner travelled to the Karman Line – the boundary between earth’s atmosphere and space – on board Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket.

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Star Trek actor William Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space

The 90-year-old said it was "extraordinary"https://t.co/EDW371laOJ pic.twitter.com/NVTyXjtRM8

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 13, 2021

This was the voyage of the RSS First Step today. Its mission: encounter Earth from incredible views at apogee pic.twitter.com/Gzsnkv97K9

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