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    Bengaluru: Foxconn factory turns rural town into real estate goldmine

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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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    Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan

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

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    How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt

  • Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle
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    Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle

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    Intermittent fasting: Does cutting carbs or calories improve metabolism?

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    Film on slain Palestinian photojournalist is a wrenching chronicle of unimaginable courage

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    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times

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International Day of Human Space Flight: When Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut, visited India

Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina Goryacheva visited India in November, 1961. He completed an orbit of the earth in April that year.

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Apr 12, 2022 · 03:46 pm
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#OTD in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to outer space and complete one orbit of the earth. Today, we take a look back at Gagarin's trip to India in November of that year (1/8) pic.twitter.com/jlvInbPeV6

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