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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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Watch: This 33-year-old temple elephant has amazing football and cricket skills

Visitors to Mangalore’s Kateel Shri Durgaparameshwari Temple enjoy watching Mahalakshmi play.

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Apr 01, 2023 · 02:46 pm
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🐘 Mahalakshmi, a 33-year-old elephant, has been attracting devotees coming to the Kateel Shri Durgaparameshwari Temple in southern India with its soccer skills pic.twitter.com/JNiCUs1dPC

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