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

  • ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild
  • Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins
  • Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat
  • From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
  • ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side
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    ‘Sister Midnight’ review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side
  • 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
  • From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution
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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
  • Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic
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    Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic
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Watch: Has no brains, but can move, eat, and even solve problems. Meet Blob

It has still not been established if the latest addition to the Paris zoo is an animal, a fungus, or something in between.

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Oct 17, 2019 · 03:07 pm
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VIDEO: 'Blob' makes first appearance at Paris zoo.

From Saturday, the Paris Zoological Park will welcome a new occupant, the "blob". Bright yellow in colour, this unicellular, brainless organism, exists all over the world and can move, eat, and even solve problems pic.twitter.com/UYRh6sWVnA

— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 17, 2019
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  1. 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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