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The Indian currency continued to lose its value amid foreign fund outflows and risk aversion triggered by geopolitical tensions.

An excerpt from ‘The Valley of Unfinished Songs’, by Umair Ahmed Khan.

United States President Donald Trump said that Washington was moving warships towards Iran ‘just in case’ he wants to take action.

‘Scroll’ interviews directors Sudip Sharma and Faisal Rahman and actors Barun Sobti and Mona Singh.

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The forecast came after rainfall and snowfall in the northern parts of the country.

The sanctuary in the Western Ghats now holds the highest concentration of Nilgiri tahr in the world and sees vast spreads of Neelakurinji bloom every 12 years.

Hedayat seemed burdened by Iran’s downfall from its glorious past and its decline into social inequality and political repression.