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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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    Maharashtra livestock commission asks animal markets to close during Bakri Eid week

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

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    ‘Not ethical questions, but aesthetic ones’: What’s on Keshava Guha’s mind while crafting a novel

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

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    In Raj Khosla biography, a portrait of a director as a ‘gloriously flawed human being’

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

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Watch: This petrol pump in Chennai is operated entirely by female inmates of Puzhal prison

Thirty women still serving their terms in the Puzhal jail have been selected to run the outlet under the state prisons department’s rehabilitation programme.

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Aug 11, 2023 · 01:11 pm
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Freedom Filling Station - India’s first petrol retail outlet fully managed by women convicts inaugurated in #Chennai #TamilNadu 30 women inmates of #Puzhal prison employed, will get Rs 6000 each as monthly salary. Initiative of TN Prison Dept pic.twitter.com/CxDwGiz9z0

— Vijay Kumar S (@vijaythehindu) August 10, 2023

India's first petrol bunk which is being operated by women convicts commenced its services near Central Prison, Puzhal in Chennai. @THChennai pic.twitter.com/QInasaD88h

— R SIVARAMAN (@SIVARAMAN74) August 10, 2023

Thread (2/2)#MinisterReghupathy #FreedomFillingStation #inaguration #womenconvicts #womenprisoners #puzhaljail #Chennai pic.twitter.com/5S2S9d3EPb

— DT Next (@dt_next) August 10, 2023
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