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Urrak plantation hopping in Goa

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The barter of freshly filled, re-used bottles, with a proclamation of ‘this is the best urrak’ (usually from the villages in Quepem and Canacona), is how greetings are exchanged this time of the year among locals. For a fleeting few weeks in April and May, this lightly spiked precursor to Feni has a parched Goan population…

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Musician Sunil Koshy releases a song in light of student protests

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Techie–turned–musician and entrepreneur Sunil Koshy’s latest song, ‘Datey Raho’, is the result of a collaboration with lyricist Sahil Sultanpuri and guitarist Rijosh Aluva. Composed during the student protest in New Delhi that resulted in the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Sunil dedicates the song to the movement. “It is not political. It is for the…

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‘Rehearsed, well-practised, planted’: Court on allegations against Brij Bhushan | Delhi News

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The judge found the allegations “strikingly similar”, made at the same time and at a common place, indicating “prior meticulous planning”. NEW DELHI: A court, which last week acquitted former BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for lack of evidence, held that the sexual harassment allegations against him…

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पवन सिंह के इवेंट में भारी बवाल, लड़के को स्टेज से नीचे फेंका, Video वायरल

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Pawan Singh Viral Video: भोजपुरी पावर स्टार पवन सिंह जहां भी जाते हैं वहां उन्हें देखने के लिए भारी भीड़ उमड़ती है. कई बार फैंस उनके लिए हदें पार करते हुए भी नजर आते हैं. हाल ही में उत्तर प्रदेश में एक इवेंट के दौरान भी ऐसा ही नजारा देखने को मिला, जब एक फैन…

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Soybean seed firms get more time to defend against poor germination complaints | Pune News

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Experts said firms were likely to cite factors like weather, storage conditions, sowing practices, soil quality and sampling procedures to argue that poor germination was not caused by seed quality Pune: Seed firms facing action over complaints of poor soybean seed germination are gearing up for crucial hearings next week, with the state agriculture department…

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Meghalaya: Looking beyond the grape | Market demand for fruit wines and an enabling government policy is motivating small-time winemakers to go commercial

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In the last couple of years, te.gism, the “fruit with a dot in its name”, has caught the imagination of wine lovers in the Northeast who fancy non-grape elixirs. Also known as the Himalayan cherry (Prunus jenkinsii), this fruit that grows in the jungles of Meghalaya’s Garo Hills remained virtually unknown until botanists documented it less…

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