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  • ‘People’s sympathy is now with the youth’: BJP workers worry about crackdown on protests
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    ‘People’s sympathy is now with the youth’: BJP workers worry about crackdown on protests

  • Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children
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    Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children

  • ‘Smiling Modi tried to project an image of calm’: How foreign press reported on CJP protest
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    ‘Smiling Modi tried to project an image of calm’: How foreign press reported on CJP protest

  • Four factors explain why Gen Z toppled rulers in Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Is India different?
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    Four factors explain why Gen Z toppled rulers in Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Is India different?

  • In Ladakh, climate change is raining on apricots, central to life and the economy
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    In Ladakh, climate change is raining on apricots, central to life and the economy

  • PM Modi says steps taken to prevent paper leaks as CJP demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation
    6

    PM Modi says steps taken to prevent paper leaks as CJP demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation

  • Updates: Opposition demands discussion in Parliament on police crackdown, 16 metro stations closed
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    Updates: Opposition demands discussion in Parliament on police crackdown, 16 metro stations closed

  • Cockroach Janta Party protest: How liberal scepticism induces paralysis in oppositional politics
    8

    Cockroach Janta Party protest: How liberal scepticism induces paralysis in oppositional politics

  • For children: Three young cousins must protect their grandmother’s home and legacy
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    For children: Three young cousins must protect their grandmother’s home and legacy

  • ‘Don’t waste our time’: SC refuses to urgently hear plea about police crackdown on protesters
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    ‘Don’t waste our time’: SC refuses to urgently hear plea about police crackdown on protesters

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At least 14 people have died in the flooding that began a week ago.

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Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods moving towards Sydneyhttps://t.co/Rfhepshv6B

📹 Residents in the town of Grafton on Australia's east coast return to properties after a deadly torrential downpour pic.twitter.com/PYPqRGu6c4

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 3, 2022

“I’ve never seen it like this. Ever.”

Residents of Lismore, New South Wales, are in shock after severe rainfall led to record-breaking floods in eastern Australia, per Reuters. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is calling it a “crisis situation.” pic.twitter.com/RoiR50SiUm

— CNN (@CNN) February 28, 2022

VIDEO: Parts of Grafton in Australia's New South Wales are under water following a week-long "rain bomb".
Deadly floods have swept Australia's east coast, stranding people on bridges and rooftops and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes pic.twitter.com/4a8vXnmSX8

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