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  • Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner
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    Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner
  • 2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
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    2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
  • Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged
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    Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged

  • Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule
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    Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule
  • 1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
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    1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
  • Backstory 2024: When I trekked two hours in Himachal for an interview
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    Backstory 2024: When I trekked two hours in Himachal for an interview
  • Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?
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    Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?
  • What a meeting with a woman entrepreneur in Kolkata taught a German diplomat about women in India
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    What a meeting with a woman entrepreneur in Kolkata taught a German diplomat about women in India
  • This book proposal won Sohini Chattopadhyay a NIF fellowship for ‘The Day I Became a Runner’
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    This book proposal won Sohini Chattopadhyay a NIF fellowship for ‘The Day I Became a Runner’
  • Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis retains home ministry, Ajit Pawar gets finance in new Cabinet
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    Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis retains home ministry, Ajit Pawar gets finance in new Cabinet
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    2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
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  4. Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule

    Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule
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