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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

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    Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

  • Stephen Alter’s novel brings to life an older version of Rudyard Kipling’s young hero, Kim, as a spy
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    Stephen Alter’s novel brings to life an older version of Rudyard Kipling’s young hero, Kim, as a spy

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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species

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Watch: Bloated mobile phone battery explodes in shopkeeper’s hands as he tries to replace it

The phone began to burn at once.

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Aug 19, 2022 · 10:25 am
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For those who delay replacing bloated battery of cellphone, this is an apt eye opener. See for yourself visuals of cellphone blasting in cellphone shop owner's hands, when he is changing bloated battery in MP's Balaghat district. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard @santwana99 pic.twitter.com/Dm1KeXRelL

— Anuraag Singh (@anuraag_niebpl) August 18, 2022

Bunty also sounded alert for all cellphone users, particularly those who often delay changing the fooli (bloated) battery of their phones. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard @santwana99 pic.twitter.com/LxuCi5nzQs

— Anuraag Singh (@anuraag_niebpl) August 18, 2022
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