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Religion Has a Guiding Role in Politics
Promod Puri argues that religion’s ethical teachings can enrich democratic politics, offering moral guidance grounded in compassion, humanism and the common good.
Australia’s biometric expansion covers new applications in India, with individual instructions deciding the next step
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