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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

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

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

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    Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain

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

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

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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?

  • Stephen Alter’s novel brings to life an older version of Rudyard Kipling’s young hero, Kim, as a spy
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    Stephen Alter’s novel brings to life an older version of Rudyard Kipling’s young hero, Kim, as a spy

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

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‘If you create panic out of crisis, government can control the panic’: BJP spokesperson on BBC

Gopal Agarwal was commenting on the government’s decision to withdraw tweets critical of the ruling party’s handling of the Covid-19 second wave.

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Apr 28, 2021 · 03:46 pm
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“If you create panic out of the crisis, every government has a right to control the panic.”

As Covid critical posts are removed on social media platforms in India, the BJP's @gopalkagarwal responds with “tweeters have to comply" with the country's content regulations#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/zfzY2EfRhK

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 27, 2021
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