Only an influential and affluent resident of the concerned mauza was appointed as Mauzadar and was given the responsibility of collecting and depositing the land revenue demanded from his mauza by a stipulated date.

In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene[…]to see the sepulchre.

COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).

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