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  • Prey, habitat quality play key role in restoring tiger populations
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    Prey, habitat quality play key role in restoring tiger populations

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    How an Israeli soldier accused of war crimes in Gaza was tracked down in India

  • Why do football fans react so violently when their team loses? A new book looks for answers
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    Why do football fans react so violently when their team loses? A new book looks for answers

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    A new book examines India’s federal weakening and aggressive centralisation of power

  • Memoir: A professor from Calcutta posted in Rawalpindi finds himself caught in Partition violence
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    Memoir: A professor from Calcutta posted in Rawalpindi finds himself caught in Partition violence

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    Bengal: TMC’s Tapash Chatterjee who lost seat by 316 votes challenges poll result in HC

  • Exclusion of Dalit converts from Scheduled Caste status revives constitutional dilemma
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    Exclusion of Dalit converts from Scheduled Caste status revives constitutional dilemma

  • Uprooting a forest for a park: The destructive ‘restoration’ of Delhi’s Central Ridge
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    Uprooting a forest for a park: The destructive ‘restoration’ of Delhi’s Central Ridge

  • Legal eagle Tushar Mehta recounts instances of the famous British humour as seen in law courts
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    Legal eagle Tushar Mehta recounts instances of the famous British humour as seen in law courts

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    India’s food regulator flagged over 160 misleading claims. Years later, 120 are still around

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