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  • ‘People’s sympathy is now with the youth’: BJP workers worry about crackdown on protests
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    ‘People’s sympathy is now with the youth’: BJP workers worry about crackdown on protests

  • How Mumbai Police is using surveillance to stop youth from protesting
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    How Mumbai Police is using surveillance to stop youth from protesting

  • Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children
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    Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children

  • Four factors explain why Gen Z toppled rulers in Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Is India different?
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    Four factors explain why Gen Z toppled rulers in Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. Is India different?

  • PM Modi says steps taken to prevent paper leaks as CJP demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation
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    PM Modi says steps taken to prevent paper leaks as CJP demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation

  • ‘Smiling Modi tried to project an image of calm’: How foreign press reported on CJP protest
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    ‘Smiling Modi tried to project an image of calm’: How foreign press reported on CJP protest

  • ‘Government’s fitness plan – running from questions’: Protests spark humour amidst tear gas clouds
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    ‘Government’s fitness plan – running from questions’: Protests spark humour amidst tear gas clouds

  • Any debate on alleged exam irregularities should only happen in Parliament, says Union minister
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    Any debate on alleged exam irregularities should only happen in Parliament, says Union minister

  • In Ladakh, climate change is raining on apricots, central to life and the economy
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    In Ladakh, climate change is raining on apricots, central to life and the economy

  • For children: Three young cousins must protect their grandmother’s home and legacy
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    For children: Three young cousins must protect their grandmother’s home and legacy

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Watch: UP police officer claims using ‘gangajal’ and sandalwood has improved law and order

Nauchandi police station SHO Prem Chand Sharma’s ‘safety protocol’ includes applying a mix of sandalwood and ‘gangajal’ on visitors’ foreheads, and ‘mantras’.

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Here, SHO Sharma while speaking to @hindipatrakar claims sprinkling gangajal and applying sandalwood teeka on forehead has brought a positive change in the law and order. pic.twitter.com/tU0kuTAK1b

— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) March 28, 2021

SHO Prem Chand Sharma in UP's Meerut has been “purifying” visitors with Gangajal while chanting a "sanitization mantra". He has been giving a bottle of Gangajal as a gift to visitors at Nauchandi police station ahead of Holi. pic.twitter.com/J3atuaeCgr

— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) March 28, 2021
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