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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it
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    ‘Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan’ trailer: Shanaya Kapoor, Vikrant Massey in film based on Ruskin Bond story
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Watch: Alert train drivers slow down to let wild elephant cross the railway tracks in West Bengal

The incident took place after the inter-city express train left Siliguri Junction on Wednesday evening.

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May 14, 2022 · 07:29 pm
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#Alert LP & ALP of 15767 Up SGUJ-APDJ Intercity Exp Sri R.R. Kumar & S. Kundu suddenly noticed one Wild Elephant crossing the track at KM 23/1 between Gulma-Sivok at 17.35 hrs yesterday & applied brake to control Train speed saving Wildlife. @wti_org_india@RailMinIndia @RailNf pic.twitter.com/12PC5ffTqO

— DRM APDJ (@drm_apdj) May 12, 2022
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