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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

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

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

  • Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain
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    Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain

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

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

  • Bhubaneswar municipal official dragged out of office and assaulted, told to apologise to BJP leader
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    Bhubaneswar municipal official dragged out of office and assaulted, told to apologise to BJP leader

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

  • 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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    Fiction: A scheme to unearth the ‘lost’ Saraswati river becomes an act of Hindu nationalist pride

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Watch: Unmanned drone refuels aircraft in mid-air for the first time

The Boeing-owned MQ25 is the first unmanned aircraft to ever refuel another aircraft.

Scroll Staff
Jun 08, 2021 · 02:43 pm
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Aviation history!

“This flight lays the foundation for integration into the carrier environment, allowing for greater capability toward manned-unmanned teaming concepts.” #MQ25 is the first unmanned aircraft to ever refuel another aircraft.

STORY➡️ https://t.co/ktUc25G7hW pic.twitter.com/1flwSBuMUD

— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) June 7, 2021

The US Navy has refueled an aircraft using an unmanned drone for the first time https://t.co/UhEkrvafGj pic.twitter.com/TgBc9GEBn9

— CNN (@CNN) June 7, 2021
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