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Mumbai Weather Update: City Wakes Up To Clear Skies, Mild Winds After 2 Days Of Reduced Rain Activity; Yellow Alert Continues
Mumbai: Mumbai woke up to mainly clear skies and mild winds on Saturday morning, offering residents a brief break from the intense monsoon showers witnessed earlier this week. Some parts of South Mumbai, including Marine Drive, Mahalaxmi and Parel, received light drizzles during the early morning hours, though overall rain activity across the city remained…
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‘August 17’ by S Hareesh: Few novels inhabit India’s unrealised future with such conviction
S Hareesh’s latest novel, August 17, translated into English by Jayasree Kalathil, poses a layered question: How does one write, translate, and read a novel that embodies a complex counterfactual: what if a small state at the southernmost part of India had remained independent in 1947? A complex process for each, one can assume. First,…
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Venezuela earthquakes toll rises to 920, UN aid chief says over 50,000 missing
The toll from the twin powerful earthquakes in Venezuela increased to 920 on Friday, AFP reported. More than 50,000 people were missing, United Nations Humanitarian Affairs chief Tom Fletcher told the news agency. At least 3,300 persons were injured, BBC quoted a state broadcaster as having reported. On Friday, the country’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez…