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THE HINDU / BONDED LABOUR & SOCIAL JUSTICEGS PAPER 1
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Eighteen-year-old V. Shiva Kumar spent over a year cutting 100 stones a day with an iron hammer, to repay a ₹1-lakh loan his father took for lung treatment five years earlier.

Sub-topic Society / Bonded Labour & Social Justice

An NGO's representation to the Anantapur district administration led to a June 4 rescue operation freeing four bonded labourers, including 18-year-old V. Shiva Kumar, from an unlicensed stone-cutting quarry where they…

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THE HINDU / ANCIENT DNA & HIMALAYAN MIGRATIONGS PAPER 1
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Two teams studied the same ancient bones from the same Ladakh cave - and arrived at two different dates for when their owners' ancestors actually mixed.

Sub-topic History / Archaeology & Ancient Genetics

A Harvard-led team publishing in Science Advances and a Lucknow-Chicago team that posted an earlier preprint have both analysed genomes from the Old Lady Spider Cave in Kargil, reaching similar conclusions about the a…

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