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In Himachal Pradesh’s Malana village, a local deity ‘told’ residents not to take the vaccine. How did they come around?
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Repeated requests by Punjab leaders to import life-saving gas from ‘enemy nation’ go unheeded by federal government.
![Raghbir Singh Bhangala, 78, has spent more than 25 years of his life fighting for the right to till his land [Photo courtesy: Bhangala's family]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_4219-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Farmers say fencing along the 553-km border has taken their lands and they have not been adequately compensated.
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Hindu and Sikh refugees in India still wait for nationality a year after a controversial citizenship law was passed.