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  • ‘People’s sympathy is now with the youth’: BJP workers worry about crackdown on protests
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    ‘People’s sympathy is now with the youth’: BJP workers worry about crackdown on protests

  • Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children
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    Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children

  • How Mumbai Police is using surveillance to stop youth from protesting
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    How Mumbai Police is using surveillance to stop youth from protesting

  • Updates: Police drag away protesters in Mumbai, Opposition demands discussion in Parliament
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    Updates: Police drag away protesters in Mumbai, Opposition demands discussion in Parliament

  • Four factors explain why Gen Z toppled rulers in Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Is India different?
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    Four factors explain why Gen Z toppled rulers in Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Is India different?

  • ‘Government’s fitness plan – running from questions’: Protests spark humour amidst tear gas clouds
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    ‘Government’s fitness plan – running from questions’: Protests spark humour amidst tear gas clouds

  • PM Modi says steps taken to prevent paper leaks as CJP demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation
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    PM Modi says steps taken to prevent paper leaks as CJP demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation

  • In Ladakh, climate change is raining on apricots, central to life and the economy
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    In Ladakh, climate change is raining on apricots, central to life and the economy

  • ‘Smiling Modi tried to project an image of calm’: How foreign press reported on CJP protest
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    ‘Smiling Modi tried to project an image of calm’: How foreign press reported on CJP protest

  • Rush Hour: Youth protests gather pace across India, Gandhi seeks Modi’s apology and more
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    Rush Hour: Youth protests gather pace across India, Gandhi seeks Modi’s apology and more

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Cyclone Amphan: Scenes from the day after reveal wanton destruction in Kolkata and West Bengal

Seventy-six people have been reported to be killed so far in West Bengal.

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May 22, 2020 · 12:10 pm
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#CycloneAmphanUpdate Destruction caused by Amphan in Kolkata pic.twitter.com/F5yut7kteV

— Anjali Pathak (@Anjali_0497) May 20, 2020

Amphan has left us with enormous destruction to #Kolkata city.#Amphan #AmphanUpdate #AmphanCyclon pic.twitter.com/JJre7oZ9Up

— Mohammad Feroz Khan محمد فيروز خان (@IAMFKhan_Sufe) May 21, 2020

#Amphan ‘s Trail of Destruction in Bengal !!! pic.twitter.com/xMNmTbiFm0

— Supriya Bhardwaj (@Supriya23bh) May 21, 2020

Boundary Wall of our flat.
Amphan Cyclone Effect. :")#AmphanCyclon#prayforwestbengal pic.twitter.com/6Znd14oNaP

— Koustav Ghosh (@koustavghosh_) May 21, 2020

The Aftermath of Cyclone Amphan.
This was the worst cyclone to hit the state of West Bengal and Odisha in the last 30 years. The WB CM announced that 72 people have died in the state out of which 17 are from Kolkata.
Most people still don’t have electricity or mobile networks. pic.twitter.com/1LyqYmGYXZ

— Faye DSouza (@fayedsouza) May 21, 2020

Kolkata has gone dark ! Unstable internet, roads closed, no power ... Bengal facing a massive disaster... CM Mamata said that she was “shocked” to see such devastation Amphan@MamataOfficial pic.twitter.com/YIrpxqqPGz

— Indiapost News (@IPNews_24) May 20, 2020
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