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    How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea

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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class

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    ‘Procedure not followed’: Dhaka on reports of India ‘pushing’ persons into Bangladesh

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    Why India needs women in national security leadership roles

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    ‘Men at Home’: Gyanendra Pandey’s book on South Asian masculinity leaves much to be desired

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The Dead Sea is dying: Briny waterbody in West Asia is rapidly losing its surface area

‘We have to be ashamed of ourselves that we’ve allowed this to happen.’

Scroll Staff
Oct 28, 2021 · 04:28 pm
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VIDEO: In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters pic.twitter.com/R5dTxczrF3

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 28, 2021
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