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  • Data analysis: How SIR deletions shaped BJP’s landslide in Bengal
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    Data analysis: How SIR deletions shaped BJP’s landslide in Bengal
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    Prey, habitat quality play key role in restoring tiger populations
  • ‘Creeping Shadows’: Horror short stories trace cultural history, caste conflicts, national tragedies
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    ‘Creeping Shadows’: Horror short stories trace cultural history, caste conflicts, national tragedies
  • For young readers: A good Samaritan helps a man from an ‘enemy’ community in distress
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    For young readers: A good Samaritan helps a man from an ‘enemy’ community in distress
  • 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
  • Himanta calls Miya Muslims declaring Assamese their mother tongue a ‘fraud’. Assam writers disagree
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    Himanta calls Miya Muslims declaring Assamese their mother tongue a ‘fraud’. Assam writers disagree
  • Mumbai is emptying groundwater reservoirs to quench its thirst
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    Mumbai is emptying groundwater reservoirs to quench its thirst
  • VD Savarkar filed 10 mercy petitions before British, grandnephew tells Pune court
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    VD Savarkar filed 10 mercy petitions before British, grandnephew tells Pune court
  • As Bengaluru’s green fades, its ‘painter laureate’ feels newly urgent
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    As Bengaluru’s green fades, its ‘painter laureate’ feels newly urgent
  • Good sleep and a proper diet could help reduce chronic stress caused by work – but exercise may not
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    Good sleep and a proper diet could help reduce chronic stress caused by work – but exercise may not
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