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  • ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
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    ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision

  • Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline
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    Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline

  • How Chhattisgarh police cremated bodies of Maoist leader and cadres without their families’ consent
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    How Chhattisgarh police cremated bodies of Maoist leader and cadres without their families’ consent

  • A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
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    A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue

  • Criminal charges against Ashoka University professor outrageous and absurd, say ex-bureaucrats
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    Criminal charges against Ashoka University professor outrageous and absurd, say ex-bureaucrats

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): Five things to know about one of Africa’s greatest ever writers
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    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): Five things to know about one of Africa’s greatest ever writers

  • Anti-Sikh pogrom: Without tangible reparations, Rahul Gandhi’s apology is symbolic
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    Anti-Sikh pogrom: Without tangible reparations, Rahul Gandhi’s apology is symbolic

  • A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
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    A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man

  • ‘Criminal Justice – A Family Matter’ review: All in a day’s work for Pankaj Tripathi’s Madhav Mishra
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    ‘Criminal Justice – A Family Matter’ review: All in a day’s work for Pankaj Tripathi’s Madhav Mishra

  • In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
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    In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’

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Watch: Venomous scorpions are infesting Aswan in Egypt because of heavy rain

Over 500 people had to be hospitalised after being stung by the scorpions.

Scroll Staff
Nov 16, 2021 · 05:27 pm
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محافظة #أسوان في مصر 🇪🇬 تشهد ليلة عاصفة، سقطت فيها أمطار غزيرة وثلوج مصحوبة ببرق ورعد مستمر، وأكثر من 100 حالة للدغات عقارب وثعابين، مع انهيار نحو 5 منازل وانقطاع للكهرباء. pic.twitter.com/M4FzkDaQQ3

— مصدر (@MSDAR_NEWS) November 13, 2021

ليلة عصيبة مليئة بالرعب مرَّت علىٰ أهالي محافظة #أسوان 3 قتلىٰ ومئات المصابين بعد عاصفة رعدية وهيجان العقارب والثعابين من جحورهن - #مصر pic.twitter.com/j5QFRevcGq

— Jarah Aldhafeeri جراح الظفيري (@Q8J72) November 14, 2021

#SevereWeather 📹 Major storm causes chaos in #Aswan, Egypt.

In the last few hours hail, heavy rain and gusts of wind 💨 have caused numerous incidents in the city. pic.twitter.com/s4s1luLYUa

— Meteored | YourWeather (@MeteoredUK) November 14, 2021
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