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    ‘Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai’ review: A dated comedy about one man with two pregnant partners

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    K Annamalai resigns from BJP

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    ‘Bandar’ review: A relentlessly grim, needling statement on MeToo

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    ‘100 is just a number’: PM’s economic adviser, says rupee should ‘find its own value’

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    Mumbai is worried about water, but its control over mainland dams is depriving others

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    Bhopal’s Barkatullah University to be renamed Vagdevi Bhojpal University

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    Review: In ‘Maa Behen’, the joys of misbehaving women

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Covid-19 crisis: Bengaluru crematorium workers, gravediggers work non-stop despite pending salaries

Like many other parts of the country, Bengaluru has been overwhelmed by an incremental rise in coronavirus cases and deaths.

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May 10, 2021 · 07:49 pm
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TW: Visuals of corpses, graves, pyres and funerals

Watch: Gravediggers and crematorium workers in Bengaluru are working around the clock as dead bodies keep piling up.

Space is running out as is the money owed to these workers, for several months now.

Report by @alitheasm pic.twitter.com/CEHk73RYAt

— Firstpost (@firstpost) May 10, 2021

After Susheelamma, a powrakarmika in Banaswadi, #Bengaluru passed away from COVID on Wednesday, the powrakarmika workers observed mourning for the untimely demise of Susheelamma today. @IndianExpress @DarshanDevaiahB pic.twitter.com/EYqHUUiH18

— Express Bengaluru (@IEBengaluru) May 6, 2021

WOMAN BEGS FOR BED OUTSIDE CM RESIDENCE

In #Bengaluru, a woman was seen pleading for Covid bed for her husband outside CM's residence. She says she is willing to pay if a bed is arranged. After 30 minutes,CM office arranged for a bed but patient died by then.

Sreeja MS reports! pic.twitter.com/Gb0RHpQpJP

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