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    ‘Bandar’ review: A relentlessly grim, needling statement on MeToo
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    Mumbai is worried about water, but its control over mainland dams is depriving others
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    Why India is not able to fully use the solar power it generates
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    ‘100 is just a number’: PM’s economic adviser, says rupee should ‘find its own value’
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    Rush Hour: DMK to skip INDIA bloc meeting, Rahul Gandhi says Modi won’t be PM in a year and more
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    Review: In ‘Maa Behen’, the joys of misbehaving women
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    Delhi fire deaths highlight precariousness of ‘medical tourists’ in the city
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    Bhopal’s Barkatullah University to be renamed Vagdevi Bhojpal University
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‘People were buried under their homes’: Afghanistan earthquake survivor whose home was destroyed

An estimated 1,000 people have died because of the earthquake that has devastated eastern Afghanistan.

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Jun 24, 2022 · 01:15 pm
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A military helicopter lands in #Afghanistan's Paktika province to evacuate civilians after a powerful earthquake that has so far killed at least 1,000 people@AFP

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— Randa HABIB (@RandaHabib) June 23, 2022

VIDEO: Deadly Afghanistan earthquake leaves people buried under homes

"When I came out of my house it was all quiet because all the people were buried...": Zaitullah Ghurziwal was awake when an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan destroyed his home #AfghanistanEarthquake #Paktika pic.twitter.com/d14gm3k79F

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 23, 2022
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