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Smartphones Transformed India. Now Indians Are Turning Them Against The Modi Government. buzzfeednews.com/article/pra… #longread
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Scoop: Kashmiris disappeared from WhatsApp overnight due to a FB policy that deletes inactive accounts automatically after 120 days. The internet has been shut down in Kashmir for 4 months now.
(By @PranavDixit)
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“I’ve developed a chronic cough since I came to Lahore — and I haven’t even seen the worst of the smog season yet.”
- by @NishSwish
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India is Creating a national facial recognition system, and critics are afraid of what will happen next -@PranavDixit
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An Indian court is trying hard to get WhatsApp to break its encryption, possibly at the behest of the government. The ruling could have major consequences on not just WhatsApp but all tech platforms in the country. buzzfeednews.com/article/pra…
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#ExpressExplained | What are Articles 370, 35A? — a quick explainer you must read
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"Water is provided only to the Brahmins and people fight with us when we approach the hand pump."
Dalit residents in the UP's Chitrakoot region are being denied access to water sources by upper castes.
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Ayushmann Khurrana’s new film 'Article 15' is the latest addition to the archives of the Brahmin-Saviour complex huffp.st/iX7Lmma
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From woke to broke: @aktalkies has the inside story of how AIB crashed and burned huffp.st/zdmzsKb
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Here's 10 ways you can help victims of #CycloneFani in #Odisha right now [a thread]
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Copies of diary entries that are with the IT dept note that BS #Yeddyurappa paid the BJP central committee 1,000 crore; Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari 150 crore each; Rajnath Singh 100 crore; and LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi 50 crore each. bit.ly/2Fsspec
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Ranbir Kapoor called Rajkumar Hirani, accused of sexual assault, an 'amazing human being,' because Bollywood is all about sucking up #MeToo huffp.st/cJ0uad8
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.@fayedsouza: Do #ElectoralBonds increase the thickness of veil on political funding? If someone funds a political party heavily, does it encourage crony capitalism? Don't you as a citizen deserve to know where the money is coming from?
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BREAKING: Commander #Abhinandan Vardhaman, the Indian Air Force pilot who is in Pakistani custody will be released on Friday.
@ImranKhanPTI called the pilot’s release a “peace gesture”.
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#BalakotAirStrike
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All commercials feature literate, urban, upper-middle class, English-speaking, Indians. Meanwhile, at least 29 people were killed this year in mob lynchings fuelled by WhatsApp rumors in some of the remotest, poorest, most illiterate parts of India buzzfeednews.com/article/pra…
Share joy, not rumours: @WhatsApp launches first TV campaign to fight misinformation in India goo.gl/bygKE3
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Women from Nalgonda, Telengana pull their socks up, getting ready for a long night at Ramlila Maidan. They'll never ask, but anyone in Delhi, please do come give what you can? They've travelled up to 48hrs. And not all farmers can afford samosas & chai from vendors
#dillichalo
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Here's everything that you should know about reporting workplace sexual harassment.
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Supreme Court upholds the constitutional validity of #Aadhaar. Here's a quick look at when you need your Aadhaar card and when you don't.
