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  • After demolitions in Delhi’s Madrasi Camp, Tamil Nadu offers support to families
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    After demolitions in Delhi’s Madrasi Camp, Tamil Nadu offers support to families

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

  • Why RSS outfit members are at centre of a Rs 14-crore scam at ICHR
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    Why RSS outfit members are at centre of a Rs 14-crore scam at ICHR

  • Talented Indians thought they could make Germany home, but many want to move on now
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    Talented Indians thought they could make Germany home, but many want to move on now

  • In Hyderabad, the international style of art deco reveals itself in homes, with personal touches
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    In Hyderabad, the international style of art deco reveals itself in homes, with personal touches

  • Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

  • ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild

  • Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

  • ‘Flow love flow flawlessly’: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s poetry contemplates truth and justice in Venice
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    ‘Flow love flow flawlessly’: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s poetry contemplates truth and justice in Venice

  • ‘Not ethical questions, but aesthetic ones’: What’s on Keshava Guha’s mind while crafting a novel
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    ‘Not ethical questions, but aesthetic ones’: What’s on Keshava Guha’s mind while crafting a novel

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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.

Scroll Staff
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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