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    UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
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    When the British considered punishing Iran for the harassment of Indian pilgrims
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    Pune student arrested for social media post ‘hurting religious sentiments’
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    The hypocrisy of India’s brutal deportations
  • How case against Muslim teen accused of ‘love jihad’ fell apart in UP court
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    How case against Muslim teen accused of ‘love jihad’ fell apart in UP court
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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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    ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side
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    June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life
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‘The blessing is also for animals’: Monks meet pets on the occasion of Buddha Purnima in Singapore

‘We like to accumulate merit for our pets, so that in the future, they may become humans just like us and not be animals.’

Scroll Staff
May 16, 2022 · 04:41 pm
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VIDEO: Singapore temple offers pet blessings for Buddhist festival.

"After my animals are blessed, they are more sensitive and they are more aware and there's more bonding," says one pet owner pic.twitter.com/XY3BugySZP

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 16, 2022
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