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    Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri makes X account private amid trolling after India-Pakistan ceasefire

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    What does Trump’s ceasefire announcement mean for Modi's strongman image?

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    The community that became home: Nine years of Broke Bibliophiles – Bombay Chapter book club

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    The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes: A readers’ guide to the seven winning books

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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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    Will new recycling mandate reduce construction waste in India?

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    When cars were still rare, two US women decided to experience India from behind the wheel

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    Beyond the drumbeats of war, the quiet thrum of peace activism

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    ‘Gram Chikitsalay’ review: A bitter pill to swallow

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    ‘Back from the trenches, more dead than alive’: A poet urges us to reconsider the true cost of war

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Watch: Kolkata Metro becomes the first in the country to run a train beneath a river

A metro rake completed a trial run under the bed of the Hooghly river through a tunnel 32 metres below the water level.

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Apr 13, 2023 · 10:27 am
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Kolkata Metro creates History!For the first time in India,a Metro rake ran under any river today!Regular trial runs from #HowrahMaidan to #Esplanade will start very soon. Shri P Uday Kumar Reddy,General Manager has described this run as a historic moment for the city of #Kolkata. pic.twitter.com/sA4Kqdvf0v

— Metro Rail Kolkata (@metrorailwaykol) April 12, 2023

Trial run of East-West metro of kolkata(india) under the river Ganga (Hooghly River). @Arzookazmi30 @Qamarcheema @fakharzai7 @arifaajakia pic.twitter.com/44qSUXXe3r

— Shivam jayanta (@shivam89722) April 12, 2023
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