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leena misra

@lynnmis

Journalist, The Indian Express,

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Joined April 2009
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This exclusive data on the #KingoftheJungle from @parimaldabhi @ExpressGujarat 31 lions captured, 7 declared ‘maneaters’, Gujarat battles recent surge in attacks indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress
31 lions captured, 7 declared ‘maneaters’, Gujarat battles recent surge in attacks

31 lions captured, 7 declared ‘maneaters’, Gujarat battles recent surge in attacks

Gujarat remains the only natural habitat of Asiatic lions in the world, with the core area being the Gir forest, covering Junagadh and Gir Somnath districts in Saurashtra.

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This beautiful breaking story on a monument tucked away in #Gandhingar that few know of #IndrodaFort
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In Gujarat capital, whispers of a fort #GujaratHardlook #Indroda #Fort indianexpress.com/article/ci…
Gujarat Hardlook: In the State Capital, Indroda Fort set to rise from ruins

Gujarat Hardlook: In the State Capital, Indroda Fort set to rise from ruins

Gandhinagar city proposes to restore the dilapidated fort of Indroda, about which very little is documented. PARIMAL A DABHI pieces together the lore and stories about it

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Air India Crash: પ્લેન ક્રેશમાં દીકરો-વહુ ગુમાવ્યા, છેલ્લા એક વર્ષથી રોજ લંડનથી પાકિસ્તાની યુવક ફોન કરીને પૂછે છે- "કેમ છો તમે?" gujarati.indianexpress.com/g…
Air India Crash: પ્લેન ક્રેશમાં દીકરો-વહુ ગુમાવ્યા, છેલ્લા એક વર્ષથી રોજ લંડનથી પાકિસ્તાની યુવક ફોન...

Air India Crash: પ્લેન ક્રેશમાં દીકરો-વહુ ગુમાવ્યા, છેલ્લા એક વર્ષથી રોજ લંડનથી પાકિસ્તાની યુવક ફોન...

12 જૂન 2025 ના અમદાવાદ એર ઇન્ડિયા ક્રેશની પહેલી વરસી પર આંખમાં આંસુ લાવી દે તેવી કહાની. પુત્ર વિયોગમાં ઝૂરતા ગુજરાતી પિતા અને લંડનથી રોજ ફોન કરતા પાકિસ્તાની સાથીદારની અદ્ભુત લાગણીની દાસ્તાન.

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Air India crash, a year later: Time stands still on the ground, survivors remember their miraculous escape indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress
Air India crash, a year later: Time stands still on the ground, survivors remember their miraculous...

Air India crash, a year later: Time stands still on the ground, survivors remember their miraculous...

A total of 260 people died in the crash, including 19 on the ground.

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Chief minister Vijay Rupani's breaks his silence for the first time; this exclusive interview by @parimaldabhi #AirIndiaCrash
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‘Got the call within minutes’: Gujarat Ex-CM Vijay Rupani’s son on Air India crash indianexpress.com/article/ci…
‘Got the call within minutes’: Gujarat Ex-CM Vijay Rupani’s son on Air India crash

‘Got the call within minutes’: Gujarat Ex-CM Vijay Rupani’s son on Air India crash

Rupani was one of the 241 people on board the Gatwick-bound flight that crashed a year ago

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‘Got the call within minutes’: Gujarat Ex-CM Vijay Rupani’s son on Air India crash indianexpress.com/article/ci…
‘Got the call within minutes’: Gujarat Ex-CM Vijay Rupani’s son on Air India crash

‘Got the call within minutes’: Gujarat Ex-CM Vijay Rupani’s son on Air India crash

Rupani was one of the 241 people on board the Gatwick-bound flight that crashed a year ago

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The calls began a year ago, after Savdhanbhai's son Kamlesh and daughter-in-law Dhapuben died in the AI crash. Since then, he has got a daily call from Kamlesh's Pak co-worker in London. An incredible story of human connection @2ritusharma @IndianExpress indianexpress-com.cdn.amppro…
‘Theek ho?’: Air India crash killed son, his Pakistani friend calls daily

‘Theek ho?’: Air India crash killed son, his Pakistani friend calls daily

The calls started a year ago, soon after Savdhanbhai lost his son Kamlesh and daughter-in-law Dhapuben in the June 12, 2025, Air India crash that killed 241 passengers. Every day since then, Savdha...

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‘Live in fear… avoid going out’: On the ground in Una, a month after court acquitted 35 for flogging indianexpress.com/article/ci…
‘Live in fear… avoid going out’: On the ground in Una, a month after court acquitted 35 for flogging

‘Live in fear… avoid going out’: On the ground in Una, a month after court acquitted 35 for flogging

“We faced the allegation that we had slaughtered cows... We want to show this country that we know how to save a cow,” says Vashram Sarvaiya

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#ExpressGujarat | #Gujarat Gas reduces PNG price for Morbi cluster, but ceramics prices to remain dearer @BrendanDabhi reports: indianexpress.com/article/ci…
Gujarat Gas reduces PNG price for Morbi cluster, but ceramics prices to remain dearer

Gujarat Gas reduces PNG price for Morbi cluster, but ceramics prices to remain dearer

Decision after Morbi Ceramics Manufacturers Association's talks with PSU, govts; fuel costs still 48% higher than pre-crisis period

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April 26 Gujarat local body polls | Facing rebel trouble in several seats, BJP suspends them for six years indianexpress.com/article/ci…
April 26 Gujarat local body polls | Facing rebel trouble in several seats, BJP suspends them for...

April 26 Gujarat local body polls | Facing rebel trouble in several seats, BJP suspends them for...

The BJP will face former party colleagues who are fighting the polls as independents after being denied tickets by the saffron party.

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Heartbreaking news…. Legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle dies at 92 of multi-organ failure, last rites on Monday indianexpress.com/article/en…
Asha Bhosle, Indian cinema’s most enduring voice, dies at 92; last rites on Monday

Asha Bhosle, Indian cinema’s most enduring voice, dies at 92; last rites on Monday

Asha Bhosle death news | Asha Bhosle dies at 92: Singer Asha Bhosle breathed her last at Breach Candy Hospital, where she had been admitted on Saturday evening due to extreme exhaustion and a chest...

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Gujarat chemical supplier pleads guilty in US fentanyl smuggling case, faces 40-year jail indianexpress.com/article/ci…
Surat’s chemical firm owner pleads guilty in US fentanyl smuggling case, faces 40-year jail

Surat’s chemical firm owner pleads guilty in US fentanyl smuggling case, faces 40-year jail

US court records reveal a sophisticated operation to bypass customs and border security, with the Surat-based company allegedly using deceptive labelling to transport about 22.6 kg of chemicals.

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Navsari sugarcane farmer halts work for 3 days to protect 3 leopard cubs spotted in his field indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress
Navsari sugarcane farmer halts work for 3 days to protect 3 leopard cubs spotted in his field

Navsari sugarcane farmer halts work for 3 days to protect 3 leopard cubs spotted in his field

Cameras set up by forest dept showed that the leopard cubs were later taken away from the spot by their mother and cane harvesting work resumed from the fourth day. Patel also ensured that the...

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Read this deep dive from @aditijf and @kamaal24 Gujarat Hardlook | Police, smugglers in a battle of wits: ‘High’ route to dry state indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress
Gujarat Hardlook | Police, smugglers in a battle of wits: ‘High’ route to dry state

Gujarat Hardlook | Police, smugglers in a battle of wits: ‘High’ route to dry state

Filled in engine oil bottles, hidden under rice bags, rotten eggs and oxygen cylinders, inside ceilings and trucks’ underbellies — Bootleggers have been devising novel ways to smuggle liquor, mainly...

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Govt’s Sabarmati Ashram revamp in Ahmedabad runs into resistance — one family holds out indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress
Govt’s Sabarmati Ashram revamp in Ahmedabad runs into resistance — one family holds out

Govt’s Sabarmati Ashram revamp in Ahmedabad runs into resistance — one family holds out

The other 250-plus families who lived on the premises have accepted compensation, moved out

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PM Museum to get replicas of Morarji’s Nishan-e-Pakistan, Bharat Ratna from Gujarat Vidyapith indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress
PM Museum to get replicas of Morarji’s Nishan-e-Pakistan, Bharat Ratna from Gujarat Vidyapith

PM Museum to get replicas of Morarji’s Nishan-e-Pakistan, Bharat Ratna from Gujarat Vidyapith

Morarji Desai willed his books, personal items to the institution in 1991.

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Taking shape at Sabarmati Ashram: A throwback to Gandhi’s time indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress
Taking shape at Sabarmati Ashram: A throwback to Gandhi’s time

Taking shape at Sabarmati Ashram: A throwback to Gandhi’s time

Outside the five-acre area of the Sabarmati Ashram where Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba resided, a space that promises to take one back in time is taking shape. Work on many of the 28 original buildings...

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Air India Ahmedabad crash: All that’s left behind indianexpress.com/article/lo…
Air India Ahmedabad crash: All that’s left behind

Air India Ahmedabad crash: All that’s left behind

Over six months after Air India’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed in Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 passengers on board, the airline is reaching out to relatives of the victims with personal...

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