Watch: Incredible views of what an ant sting looks like from beneath the skin
The painful sting takes mere seconds, with the ant injecting up to 13 droplets of venom into its victim per second.
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1Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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2Fiction: A scheme to unearth the ‘lost’ Saraswati river becomes an act of Hindu nationalist pride
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3Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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4How Indians save and borrow – in six charts
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5‘Mistry’ review: New ‘Monk’ in a newish bottle
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6‘A dry future powered by the sun’: Solar water pumps are draining India’s groundwater reserves
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7For a lasting peace between India and Pakistan, their people must be allowed to talk
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8Desolate landscape to tourist hub: How China is transforming Mount Everest
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9‘White Lillies’: An intimate chronicle of a woman through terrains of loss, grief, and enduring pain
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10‘Viraatapalem: PC Meena Reporting’ review: A tough cop investigates the affair of the dying brides
