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  • How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror
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    How the river flows: There is another way the Indus Water Treaty could help defeat terror

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    Snow leopards thriving in Ladakh Himalayan ranges, but challenges loom

  • Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future
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    Why workers who grow one of the world’s finest teas face an uncertain future

  • ‘Confused product of a confused brain’: When Guru Dutt cast a spell over everyone – except one man
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    ‘Confused product of a confused brain’: When Guru Dutt cast a spell over everyone – except one man

  • Hindi’s Hindutva problem that supporters are not ready to reckon with
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    Hindi’s Hindutva problem that supporters are not ready to reckon with

  • Rush Hour: Yemen postpones Kerala nurse’s execution, CPI leader shot dead and more
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    Rush Hour: Yemen postpones Kerala nurse’s execution, CPI leader shot dead and more

  • ‘Myth is a carrier of history, trauma, resistance’: Subi Taba on writing about Arunachal Pradesh
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    ‘Myth is a carrier of history, trauma, resistance’: Subi Taba on writing about Arunachal Pradesh

  • Russia’s pro-natalist push: Paying pregnant schoolgirls to have babies
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    Russia’s pro-natalist push: Paying pregnant schoolgirls to have babies

  • Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future
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    Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future

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    ‘Dhadak 2’ director Shazia Iqbal: ‘Caste is everywhere, not just in rural India’

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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.

Scroll Staff
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

— Mirror Now (@MirrorNow) May 6, 2021
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