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  • From the fall of Islamabad to an attack on Karachi: 5 fake stories that Indian TV news ran with
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    From the fall of Islamabad to an attack on Karachi: 5 fake stories that Indian TV news ran with

  • ‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre
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    ‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre

  • Godi media fake news: spreading panic, escalating war tensions
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    Godi media fake news: spreading panic, escalating war tensions

  • Rush Hour: India alleges Pakistan used civilian planes as shield, ‘The Wire’ website blocked & more
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    Rush Hour: India alleges Pakistan used civilian planes as shield, ‘The Wire’ website blocked & more

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    Why Ola and Uber are copying India’s new ride-hailing app

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    ‘Gram Chikitsalay’ review: A bitter pill to swallow

  • Pakistan attacks military stations in Jammu, Pathankot and Udhampur
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    Pakistan attacks military stations in Jammu, Pathankot and Udhampur

  • Fiction: A woman wakes up confused in a hospital and realises that she has no idea who she is
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    Fiction: A woman wakes up confused in a hospital and realises that she has no idea who she is

  • Rabindranath Tagore at 164: Translator Sharmistha Mohanty on the writer’s profound empathy for women
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    Rabindranath Tagore at 164: Translator Sharmistha Mohanty on the writer’s profound empathy for women

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    Pakistani drone injures three in Punjab’s Firozpur, blackouts ordered in several border districts

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Watch: Chunk of the sun’s surface breaks off to whirl in a vortex around its north pole

For the first time, scientists have witnessed a filament breaking away from the sun, generating a polar whirlwind.

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Feb 11, 2023 · 12:23 pm
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Absolutely gorgeous polar crown filament eruption off the northern pole of the Sun, just observed by the GOES/SUVI camera ☀️ Needless to say that this ejection is going more or less "straight up" and is not Earth-directed 😉 pic.twitter.com/UslNnKqJuD

— Dr. Erika Palmerio (@erikapal) February 10, 2023

Talk about Polar Vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated! pic.twitter.com/1SKhunaXvP

— Dr. Tamitha Skov (@TamithaSkov) February 2, 2023

More observations of the #SolarPolarVortex reveal it took roughly 8 hours for material to circumnavigate the pole at approximately 60° latitude. This means an upper bound in the estimation of horizontal wind speed in this event is 96 kilometers per second or 60 miles a second! pic.twitter.com/EpHhwdLeDs

— Dr. Tamitha Skov (@TamithaSkov) February 4, 2023
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