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  • Assam: Homes of 1,400 Bengali-origin Muslim families bulldozed in Dhubri eviction drive
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    Assam: Homes of 1,400 Bengali-origin Muslim families bulldozed in Dhubri eviction drive
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    In his new book, Suraj Yengde writes about local manifestations of caste among Indians in Trinidad
  • ‘Seek knowledge here’: A conversation between Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist monk Nagasena
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    ‘Seek knowledge here’: A conversation between Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist monk Nagasena
  • Silica gel: What’s in those little packs and is it toxic?
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    Silica gel: What’s in those little packs and is it toxic?
  • ‘Confused product of a confused brain’: When Guru Dutt cast a spell over everyone – except one man
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    ‘Confused product of a confused brain’: When Guru Dutt cast a spell over everyone – except one man
  • Both pilots killed as fighter jet crashes in Rajasthan
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    Both pilots killed as fighter jet crashes in Rajasthan
  • ‘Failures for having dreamed of a united India’: Diplomat KM Panikkar anticipated Partition in 1941
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    ‘Failures for having dreamed of a united India’: Diplomat KM Panikkar anticipated Partition in 1941
  • Demolishing homes of India’s urban poor fails to address the root causes for informal settlements
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    Demolishing homes of India’s urban poor fails to address the root causes for informal settlements
  • How the judiciary paved the way for the current spate of slum demolitions in Delhi
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    How the judiciary paved the way for the current spate of slum demolitions in Delhi
  • Maharashtra: Shinde Sena MLA assaults canteen worker claiming he was served stale food
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    Maharashtra: Shinde Sena MLA assaults canteen worker claiming he was served stale food
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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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