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    Why Ola and Uber are copying India’s new ride-hailing app

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    ‘None of our business, not getting involved’: US on India-Pakistan tensions

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    Pakistan launched attacks along ‘entire western border’, was effectively repulsed: Indian Army

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    One killed, two injured in Pakistani shelling in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri

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    ‘Gram Chikitsalay’ review: A bitter pill to swallow

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    Why a maverick Assam activist is pushing Bengali-origin Muslims to boycott citizenship trials

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‘Graves are disappearing’: For the right price, burial space is being ‘created’ in Karachi

As the Pakistani city runs out of space to lay its dead to rest, old graves are illicitly being demolished to make way for new ones.

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Apr 18, 2022 · 05:28 pm
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VIDEO: In the teeming metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, graveyards are filling up and the dead are running out of space to rest. But for the right price, a plot can be "found" for the body of a loved one by crews who demolish old graves pic.twitter.com/RqUnChx1bN

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