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    UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild

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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

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    June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life

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    From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution

  • Nagpur woman who crossed Line of Control from Kargil booked for espionage
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    Nagpur woman who crossed Line of Control from Kargil booked for espionage

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    Ramachandra Guha: Trump’s attack on US universities is a tragedy for the entire world

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    Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic

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Watch: US man sets world record for longest time living underwater, with no plans of surfacing soon

University professor Joseph Dituri completed 74 days at Florida’s Jules’ Undersea Lodge conducting research, both medical and oceanic.

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May 16, 2023 · 11:06 am
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A researcher in Florida has set a new world record for the longest time spent living underwater. Joseph Dituri has beaten the previous 73-day record for underwater habitation set in 2014 pic.twitter.com/fUr1m3eHLq

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 15, 2023

Today I broke the world record for living underwater. The curiosity for discovery has led me here. My goal from day 1 has been to inspire generations to come, interview scientists who study life undersea and learn how the human body functions in extreme environments.

~Ad mare pic.twitter.com/bT0wndmMx9

— Joseph Dituri, Ph.D. (@drdeepsea) May 14, 2023
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