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  • ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
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    ‘I want all people to be nothing else but Indians’: Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s vision
  • Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline
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    Mumbai Commuter Rail division: Some ideas on fixing the commercial capital’s lifeline
  • How Chhattisgarh police cremated bodies of Maoist leader and cadres without their families’ consent
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    How Chhattisgarh police cremated bodies of Maoist leader and cadres without their families’ consent
  • Anti-Sikh pogrom: Without tangible reparations, Rahul Gandhi’s apology is symbolic
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    Anti-Sikh pogrom: Without tangible reparations, Rahul Gandhi’s apology is symbolic
  • A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
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    A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
  • A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
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    A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
  • Criminal charges against Ashoka University professor outrageous and absurd, say ex-bureaucrats
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    Criminal charges against Ashoka University professor outrageous and absurd, say ex-bureaucrats
  • Translated short fiction: A Konkani Christian cowherd wonders if he should convert to Hinduism
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    Translated short fiction: A Konkani Christian cowherd wonders if he should convert to Hinduism
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    In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’
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    ‘Criminal Justice – A Family Matter’ review: All in a day’s work for Pankaj Tripathi’s Madhav Mishra
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‘To inspire all the women’: Transgender businesswoman after buying Miss Universe pageant

Anne Jakkapong Jakrajutatip, the CEO of the Thailand-based JKN Global Group, bought the global beauty pageant organisation for $20 million.

Scroll Staff
Oct 29, 2022 · 02:46 pm
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Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, CEO of JKN Global Group, is the first woman owner of the Miss Universe Organization. pic.twitter.com/zcN6aGR7A6

— Miss Universe (@MissUniverse) October 28, 2022

Tycoon and celebrity Jakapong ‘Anne’ Jakrajutatip is the new owner of Miss Universe. The Thai trans woman wants to use the pageant to inspire women. pic.twitter.com/xeqPhduhmW

— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) October 29, 2022
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