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  • Scheduled Caste panel issues notice after Telangana IAS officer asks students to clean toilets
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    Scheduled Caste panel issues notice after Telangana IAS officer asks students to clean toilets

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

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

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

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

  • Active Covid-19 cases rise to 4,026, five deaths in past 24 hours
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    Active Covid-19 cases rise to 4,026, five deaths in past 24 hours

  • 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

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

  • ‘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

  • How case against Muslim teen accused of ‘love jihad’ fell apart in UP court
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    How case against Muslim teen accused of ‘love jihad’ fell apart in UP court

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Watch: Saloni Gaur imitates Shashi Tharoor’s wordy ways, he tweets back

‘This is a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious misunderstanding.’

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Jun 16, 2020 · 01:37 pm
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Is Chandrachur Tharoor or Tharoor Chandrachur?Nevermind. pic.twitter.com/gUU3BeqPgu

— Saloni Gaur (Nazma Aapi) (@salonayyy) June 13, 2020

Flattered by the comedic imitation. However, I would like to believe that I am not such a garrulous sesquipedalian... Clearly the artiste on the screen does not suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 13, 2020
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