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  • A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class
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    A hidden debt crisis is silently wrecking the dreams of India’s middle class
  • How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea
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    How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea
  • Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan
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    Translated historical fiction: Shivaji and Aurangzeb’s bloody battle for the control of the Deccan
  • Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim
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    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim
  • What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times
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    What excess death data shows: Bihar, Gujarat undercounted Covid-19 toll by 30 times
  • IMF loan to Pakistan ‘no less than terror funding’, says Rajnath Singh
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    IMF loan to Pakistan ‘no less than terror funding’, says Rajnath Singh
  • How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt
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    How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt
  • Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle
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    Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle
  • India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare
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    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare
  • Should the Opposition attack Modi about Pahalgam and the ceasefire? INDIA is a house divided
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    Should the Opposition attack Modi about Pahalgam and the ceasefire? INDIA is a house divided
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Video: Christopher Nolan missed out a significant piece of history in Dunkirk

The movie conveniently overlooked the role of Indian soldiers in World War Two.

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Jul 30, 2017 · 09:10 am
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    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ off boats into Bangladesh, local police claim
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