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India’s last village goes electric, but millions still see dim returns

VERDICT RENDERED Caroline Heldman, Lili Bernard and Victoria Valentino, three of the dozens of women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, embrace after a jury in Norristown, Pa., found him guilty on April 26 of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. The case was one of the first high-profile sexual-assault trials to take place since the #MeToo movement began.

EVERY VILLAGE IN INDIA NOW HAS ACCESS to electricity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on April 29, one day after a remote village in Manipur, northeast India, was added to the national grid. It

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