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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

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    Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world

  • How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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    How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design

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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

  • 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

  • Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain
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    Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • ‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy
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    ‘Heads of State’ review: An agreeably preposterous geopolitical buddy comedy

  • This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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    This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings

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

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Watch: 2,600-foot runway on frozen lake opens for pilots to land their planes

The runway in New Hampshire, USA opens for operation only when there is a layer of evenly distributed solid ice at least 12 inches deep.

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Feb 24, 2021 · 05:10 pm
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VIDEO: A 2,600-foot runway is open to the public in Alton Bay in Lake Winnipesaukee, in the US state of New Hampshire. The runway is built on the frozen lake as soon as there is at least 12 inches or more of solid ice evenly distributed through the bay area pic.twitter.com/RXp0tClDgd

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