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  • The Indian Foreign Service built the country’s reputation. Now, it seeks awards for one leader
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    The Indian Foreign Service built the country’s reputation. Now, it seeks awards for one leader
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    ‘Fractured Communities’ by Umar Khalid: Scholarship meets commitment to marginalised lives
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    ‘Bol Bol Rani’ review: Sai Tamhankar prevents a mind game thriller from being a brain fade
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    SIR: Election Commission extends deadline in Maharashtra until August 8
  • Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children
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    Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children
  • Scroll’s SIR experience is a microcosm of what urban India is facing
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    Scroll’s SIR experience is a microcosm of what urban India is facing
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    ‘Cops move Wangchuk to hospital’: How newspapers played down police action at CJP protest
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    ‘Birth of a Nation’: Forming independent India was a brutal exercise in preventing balkanisation
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    What Irom Sharmila, who fasted for 16 years, thinks about Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike
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    ‘The Once and Future Riot’: On Joe Sacco’s new book (and a conversation with him) on Muzaffarnagar
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Watch: Hong Kong’s iconic floating restaurant capsizes in South China Sea, no crew members injured

Opened in 1976, the restaurant has served over 30 million guests including Queen Elizabeth II.

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Jun 21, 2022 · 01:30 pm
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This was an iconic floating restaurant in Hong Kong, lots of good memories here with family & friends, makes me sad to see this! pic.twitter.com/EjCrxBwlWz

— dj pints (@djpints) June 21, 2022

Hong Kong’s iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant designed like a Chinese imperial palace was towed after being closed by the #Covid19 pandemic.

Opened in 1976, the restaurant has served over 30 million guests including Queen Elizabeth II and Tom Cruise #珍寶海鮮舫 pic.twitter.com/o4xZwrxdvL

— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) June 15, 2022
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