Maharashtra's new deputy CM Ajit Pawar's supporters during the inauguration of the new party office near Mantralaya in Mumbai, Maharashtra, on 4 July (photo: Getty Images)

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Were those hoods on the African cheetahs at their introduction to Kuno prophetic of their fate in India?

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A farmer at a rural bank branch in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh

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Sharad Pawar addresses a rally in Nashik on Saturday, 8 July 2023

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Eknath Shinde with a group of Shiv Sena MLAs at a 5-star hotel in Guwahati after Shinde effected a split in Shiv Sena, June 2022

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People protest against the World Trade Organisation in the US (Image for representational purpose. Credit: Getty Images)

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NCP Chief Sharad Pawar (photo: Getty Images)

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National security advisor Ajit Doval shares food with some locals in Srinagar in 2019

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Representative image of Uniform Civil Code (photo: IANS)

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Narendra Modi (photo: Getty Images)

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a joint session of the US Congress on 22 June 2023 in Washington DC (photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Narendra Modi's curious colonial hangover about speaking English

Protestors from Manipur's tribal communities at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, 24 June 2023, calling out PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah for neglect of the NE state, with only 2 seats in Parliament (photo: Vipin/National Herald)

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File picture of Prime Minister Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi (photo: T. Narayan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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