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  • A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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    A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
  • A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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    A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
  • How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
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    How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city

  • ‘Noose around my neck’: Tech professionals rethink life in US amid immigration curbs
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    ‘Noose around my neck’: Tech professionals rethink life in US amid immigration curbs
  • The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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    The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
  • How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
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    How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
  • Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
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    Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
  • ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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    ‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
  • Rush Hour: Kashmir chief cleric ‘detained’ on Eid, Congress seeks law on SC, ST quotas and more
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    Rush Hour: Kashmir chief cleric ‘detained’ on Eid, Congress seeks law on SC, ST quotas and more
  • Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
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    Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
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Watch: UP government official fires revolver in the air, claims it was a toy gun

The officer told ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ it was a toy gun.

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May 25, 2022 · 10:51 am
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यूपी: सुल्तानपुर के डोमनपुर ग्राम पंचायत की सचिव बच्चों वाली गन से खेल रही हैं.

आप कहेंगे ये रिवॉल्वर है, लेकिन असल में ये बच्चों वाली गन है. खुद मैडम ने कन्फर्म किया है. pic.twitter.com/zi4o3FXIYN

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    A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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    The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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