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Chair honoring Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Delhi University
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A community radio station in India that helped students sans smartphones pursue their studies
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Afghanistan’s Herat city to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has accepted a request by the Afghan government to include the western city of Herat among world cultural heritage sites
