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    UK’s new rules for international students will worsen university finances

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    Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

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    ‘I was astonished’: Valmik Thapar (1952–2025) on spotting one of his beloved tigers in the wild

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    Nature, who needs it? A writing adventure with Ranjit Hoskote at the Himalayan Writing Retreat

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    June fiction: Six new fiction titles by Indian writers that probe the unseen of everyday life

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    Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic

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    How case against Muslim teen accused of ‘love jihad’ fell apart in UP court

  • From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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    From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship

  • From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution
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    From Assam to Haryana, arbitrary arrests of social media users make a mockery of the Constitution

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    Pune student arrested for social media post ‘hurting religious sentiments’

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India’s Covid-19 crisis: With no hospital beds and no oxygen, deaths are becoming uncountable

There is increasing evidence that the actual number of people dying from Covid-19 in India is far more than the official numbers, BBC said.

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Apr 26, 2021 · 06:45 pm
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“I’ve never seen such a terrifying situation. I can’t believe we’re in the capital of #India. People aren’t getting oxygen and they’re dying like animals”, @jayantMalhotr18 tells the BBC. Another horrifying ground report from @yogital, Fred Scott and Sanjay Ganguly. #Delhi pic.twitter.com/SATROEAhry

— Nicola Careem (@NicolaCareem) April 25, 2021

After failing to receive proper medical attention, kin of the patient cursing the medical college staff in Shahjahanpur...
While the district administration said "Sab Kuch theek Thak he aur control me he" (everything is fine and under control)@Benarasiyaa pic.twitter.com/I93H4tI1f7

— Kanwardeep singh (@KanwardeepsTOI) April 25, 2021

Woman dies from Covid in SMHS hospital Srinagar: Family say she collapsed for want of oxygen pic.twitter.com/l5KYCcA2I2

— Basit Zargar (باسط) (@basiitzargar) April 26, 2021

Shubhashnagar Crematorium. pic.twitter.com/pXQmWKXC0s

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