Second World War

Nepal: Does republican transition threatens political stability, still?

How the new government, often identified with an adversarial China, handles bilateral relations and trilateral equations will be keenly watched in New Delhi

War as a locomotive for technological breakthrough

The way the Russians are working in the country's hi-tech industries now, with gusto and enthusiasm, tells us that the new economic model for the nation is almost there

Charcoal and Lady Death: The tale of Ukraine’s two deadly women snipers

Ukraine has hailed Charcoal, a woman sniper, as the ‘hero of the modern war’. Comparisons have been drawn to ‘Lady Death’, the iconic sharpshooter who served in the Red Army and killed 306 enemy soldiers by the time she was 25

COVID-19 pandemic led to biggest decline in life expectancy since World War II, finds Oxford study

The study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, found that 27 of the 29 countries saw reductions in life expectancy in 2020.

Independence Day 2021: Find out the history behind partition of India and Pakistan

British lawyer Cyril Radcliffe, who led the Boundary Commission, later clarified that he had relied on outdated maps and census materials while splitting the key provinces of Punjab and Bengal

Peace demands climate of trust, non-aggression, says Rajnath Singh at SCO meet in Russia

Singh made the remarks during his address at a ministerial meeting of SCO members in Moscow, in an indirect message to China which is engaged in a festering border row with India in eastern Ladakh

Seventy-five years since the Hiroshima bombing: Preserving survivors' messages of peace

From welcoming visitors into their homes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to lecturing on cruise ships, survivors have shared their message of peace with audiences at home and abroad, including with the world’s political and religious leaders

World War II-era bomb defused near Frankfurt's European Central Bank headquarters; 16,500 people evacuated before operation

A 500-kilo World War II bomb was defused near the Frankfurt headquarters of the European Central Bank hours after thousands of people were evacuated.

AN-32 not first victim of Arunachal's rough weather; difficulty in flying led to region being termed 'graveyard' of planes during WWII

A cargo aircraft like the Indian Air Force's AN-32, laden with supplies and personnel, may suddenly flip or roll, thereby losing control due to the sudden change in wind speeds in the forbidding mountains of Arunachal Pradesh

Raghu Karnad on winning Windham-Campbell Prize, his book on India's role in WWII, and forgotten histories

According to Karnad, World War II was the largest military engagement that Indians and the Indian states ever participated in. In Indian history, Indians had never fought a war larger than this.