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IAF chief’s frustration is evident. Govt must not grow complacent about his pledge

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Ring in a new virus, ring out Mr Trudeau

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Pigs, cattle, sheep — fatty residues on Indus Valley pottery shows meat-heavy diet: Study

New findings from research on meat-eating dietary habits of Indus civilisation communities, conducted by Akshyeta Suryanarayan during her PhD at Cambridge, was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

A 4,500-old woman from Rakhigarhi spoke this week, and made Indians ask ‘Who are we?’

New DNA study results from Rakhigarhi remains set off a debate about Indian history, politics, and British colonialism online.

Climate change may have finished off Indus Valley Civilisation

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New study shows climate change caused decline of flourishing Indus Valley Civilisation

Using under-sea fossil evidence and its marine DNA, researchers were able to trace how climate change led to the decline of Harappan Civilisation.

Archeologist who found 4,500-yr-old skeletons in Haryana doesn’t buy Aryan invasion theory

Vasant Shinde says skeletons found in Rakhigarhi date to around 2500 BC, and there’s only ‘stray evidence’ of contact with Central Asians at that time.

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US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

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Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

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