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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown
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    ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown

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‘This is something that is more unusual’: Queen Elizabeth cuts cake with sword rather than knife

‘I know there is (a knife)!’ Queen Elizabeth II exclaimed, saying she would rather use a ceremonial sword to cut a cake in Cornwall, England.

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Jun 12, 2021 · 04:41 pm
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Queen Elizabeth II insisted on cutting a cake using a ceremonial sword at an event on the sidelines of the G7 summit.

When told there was a knife available instead, the monarch replied, “I know there is! This is something that is more unusual.” https://t.co/Bu2P1lVq7H pic.twitter.com/LCd8sHdGnz

— ABC News (@ABC) June 12, 2021
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