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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

  • Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
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    Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’

  • India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare
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    India hyphen Pakistan: US rhetoric revives New Delhi’s nightmare

  • Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ into Bangladesh, local police claim
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    Three Indians among 78 ‘pushed’ 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

  • SC tells Centre to respond to plea by ‘4PM News’ challenging blocking of its YouTube channel
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    SC tells Centre to respond to plea by ‘4PM News’ challenging blocking of its YouTube channel

  • ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women
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    ‘By tearing off the skin with your teeth’: The right way to eat mangoes according to Victorian women

  • Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor
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    Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor

  • Restore Kancha Gachibowli forest or have officers sent to jail, SC tells Telangana
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    Restore Kancha Gachibowli forest or have officers sent to jail, SC tells Telangana

  • Donald Trump reiterates claim that he ‘helped settle’ tensions between India and Pakistan
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    Donald Trump reiterates claim that he ‘helped settle’ tensions between India and Pakistan

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Watch: Muslims cremate Hindu man after his relatives refuse to turn up owing to coronavirus fears

Relatives of Ravishankar of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr refused to come forward to lift his bier, reported ‘Navbharat Times’.

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Mar 30, 2020 · 01:09 pm
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In Bulandshahr, a man named Ravishankar died. Because of the #COVID fear, none of his relatives came to lift the bier. His Muslim neighbours came,lifted the bier & also chanted "Ram Naam Satya hai" in the funeral procession. pic.twitter.com/g4TLPsxdpH

— Zainab Sikander (@zainabsikander) March 29, 2020
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