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  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

  • Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

  • Bhubaneswar municipal official dragged out of office and assaulted, told to apologise to BJP leader
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    Bhubaneswar municipal official dragged out of office and assaulted, told to apologise to BJP leader

  • Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

  • Justice is not a startup: AI and technology can’t be a quick-fix for meaningful reform
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    Justice is not a startup: AI and technology can’t be a quick-fix for meaningful reform

  • For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with

  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

  • ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown
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    ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown

  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

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Watch: Scenes from explosion in Iran as clinic burns with patients inside, at least 19 killed

This is the second explosion in Iran in less than a week, after the first one last Friday near a military site close to Tehran.

Scroll Staff
Jul 01, 2020 · 12:54 pm
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Video—Inside the burned facility in northern Tehran, #Iran

Explosion/fire left 19 dead, including 15 women & 4 men, and 14 injured.

Locals ask could this have been a deliberate act to take attention away from the recent missile site explosion?

(Thread below for more details) https://t.co/IxCedwVgyT pic.twitter.com/O33vWWvfzw

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) July 1, 2020

June 30—Tehran, #Iran
The hospital is burning in flames & voices are heard expressing grave concerns about the many patients inside the facility. pic.twitter.com/XHd6TklU9y

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) June 30, 2020

June 30—Tehran, #Iran
Locals say the blaze (seen in previous videos) have been contained but there are still fires in the hospital's basement.

This footage appears to be people attempting to escape the facility through a large window. pic.twitter.com/WJ6joHO7Xt

— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) June 30, 2020
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