Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo hoped that India will rethink its decisions about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 and National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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Dhaka should find alternative to COP to fight climate change
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US killing of Soleimani ‘tantamount’ to war: Iran’s UN envoy
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New air strike on pro-Iran convoy in Iraq ahead of Soleimani funeral
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