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    History of Physics Webinar Series: Physics in the Indian sub-continent

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    Eclipses and pulsations: Binary stars to the rescue

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    Small Modular Reactors of the Past and the Future

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    Gravitational Waves

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    International Year of Quantum Opening Ceremony

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