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  • Watch: Ranveer Singh plays a super-spy in Aditya Dhar’s 1970s-set thriller ‘Dhurandhar’
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    Watch: Ranveer Singh plays a super-spy in Aditya Dhar’s 1970s-set thriller ‘Dhurandhar’
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    A new book suggests ways for professionals to develop AI literacy to thrive in an AI-first world
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    ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family
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    For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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    Uganda, India and beyond: What Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals about the insecurities of expulsion
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    ‘The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case’ review: A balancing act between fact and drama
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    ‘Sarzameen’ trailer: An Army family is torn between duty and love
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    A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
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    July fiction: Six books in translation and in English that present diverse stories
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‘The virus sleeps when you sleep’: Pakistan politician Fazal-ur-Rahman’s bizarre comment on Covid-19

Rahman also said that the virus dies when human beings who are infected die.

Scroll Staff
Jun 17, 2020 · 08:18 am
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When we sleep, virus sleeps. When we die, virus dies. Simple. pic.twitter.com/F3cDrEzOZV

— Naila Inayat नायला इनायत (@nailainayat) June 13, 2020
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