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When a German torpedo sank Ambedkar's PhD thesis

When a German torpedo sank Ambedkar's PhD thesis
Published on Apr 14, 2025 04:28 PM IST

Two years of the Ukraine war: All eyes on US as fate hangs in balance

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (C), her husband Bo Tengberg (C) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) arrive to lay flowers during a memorial ceremony at the Field of Mars of Lychakiv Cemetery, in Lviv, on February 23, 2024. (AFP)
Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:44 AM IST

Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun

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Ukrainian servicemen fire a howitzer towards Russian troops at a position near the frontline town of Bakhmut, amid Russia’s attack, in Donetsk region, Ukraine. (REUTERS)
Published on Aug 13, 2023 12:21 AM IST

Making a case for the Classics: Henry Eliot’s open letter to the millennials

The word ‘classic’ is such an over-used term it’s easy to lose sight of what it means
Published on Apr 25, 2020 10:42 PM IST

Oak tree symbolizing Trump-Macron friendship dead

The sapling, a gift from Macron on the occasion of his state visit, is gone from the lawn.
Updated on Jun 10, 2019 11:47 AM IST

Celebrating Einstein, the scientist-statesman

Many of science’s most well recognised symbols are related to one specific scientist. Be they equations (E = mc2), theories (that one about relativity), or even the most popular idea of the “mad scientist” look. This person is Albert Einstein
Updated on Apr 19, 2019 07:40 PM IST

Life-changing reads of 2018

Five authors pick a book each that taught them a new lesson this year
Updated on Dec 15, 2018 10:27 PM IST

Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu meets Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron at World War 1 commemoration banquet

Vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu met United States president Donald Trump and French president Emmanuel Macron at a banquet hosted by the latter in honour of Heads of States who are attending a ceremony in Paris to commemorate the Armistice of First World War.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 10:35 AM IST

Duty and loyalty on display in the First World War

Subedar Major Thakur Singh, who participated in World War-I. Picture clicked from an old photograph at his grandson’s residence, in Sector-04 in Panchkula, Haryana.
Updated on Nov 12, 2018 12:24 AM IST

British rewarded India’s help in World War 1 by imposing draconian laws, writes Shashi Tharoor

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Kasturba at a reception given in Ahmedabad in 1915. Gandhi returned to India from South Africa that year
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 02:36 PM IST

Statue honouring Sikh soldiers who fought for Britain during WW-1 to be installed in UK

Indian infantrymen on the march in France during World War I.
Updated on Jun 21, 2018 10:48 PM IST

Book review: Meet the detective who can fill the gap between Sherlock Holmes and James Bond

Wiggins of the Baker Street Irregulars is the protagonist of this book.
Updated on Apr 08, 2018 04:38 PM IST

Adolf Hitler’s portrait of French lover to go up for auction, expected to fetch $74,000

The signature of former German dictator Adolf Hitler is seen on a painting of the old registry office in Munich, at Weidler auction house in Nuremberg November 18, 2014.
Updated on Apr 05, 2018 07:19 PM IST