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    After demolitions in Delhi’s Madrasi Camp, Tamil Nadu offers support to families

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    White roofs can cool down homes – but scaling up this simple solution is a challenge

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    How colleges in India bribe assessors to get higher grades

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    Interview: The photographic memory of a Goan who transcended the colonial gaze

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    Why RSS outfit members are at centre of a Rs 14-crore scam at ICHR

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    In Hyderabad, the international style of art deco reveals itself in homes, with personal touches

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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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    Harsh Mander: When lawless cruelty becomes state policy – India’s casting of Rohingya into the sea

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‘Lead by example’: TMC MP Derek O’Brien to Modi, Shah on countering hate speech on social media

‘Stop following all those (Twitter) handles which are spreading bigotry and hate.’

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Mar 15, 2020 · 12:54 pm
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Mr Home Minister,

You said all social media accounts spreading hate speech will be stopped. But here is one of the many Qs you did not answer in #Parliament

QUESTION #1

Will PM and you lead by example and stop following accounts that spread bigotry & hate?

WATCH>> pic.twitter.com/pO1K809nmU

— Citizen Derek | নাগরিক ডেরেক (@derekobrienmp) March 15, 2020
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