Will the UK Get New Bank Holiday for the 80th VE Day Celebrations?The UK will mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day with four days of events from May 5 to 8, 2025. A military parade, a Re...
07 Mar, 2025, 08.20 PM IST
Queen Camilla to miss UK's annual Remembrance Sunday events owing to chest infectionQueen Camilla will not attend Britain's Remembrance weekend events. She is recovering from a chest infection. King Charles III and Princess...
09 Nov, 2024, 08.29 PM IST
London police arrest over 120 as pro-Palestinian rally draws counter-protestsPrime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the violence seen at the Cenotaph war memorial and also attacked "Hamas sympathisers" who joined the b...
12 Nov, 2023, 07.40 AM IST
4 police officers injured in pro-Palestinian protests in UK; 29 protesters arrestedThe Metropolitan Police said more than 1,300 officers were on duty on Saturday as tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the Isra...
05 Nov, 2023, 03.48 PM IST
Success of Chandrayaan-3 triumph of entire humankind: PM Modi tells Greek President SakellaropoulouIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Greek President Katerina N Sakellaropoulou in Athens to discuss strengthening the India-Greece...
28 Aug, 2023, 11.03 AM IST
Queen back to work after missing war memorial ceremony due to back sprainThe monarch had been advised by doctors to rest until mid-November.
18 Nov, 2021, 12.46 PM IST
Prince Harry arrives in Britain for Prince Philip's funeral, wife Meghan will not attendPrince Andrew said that his father's passing has left 'huge void' in queen's life.
12 Apr, 2021, 12.18 PM IST
War Memorials for animals, who silently served the nationA memorial in India for military service animals would continue a long tradition.
27 Jan, 2020, 08.16 AM IST
New UK sculpture to honour Indian soldiersEarlier this week in the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Theresa May had paid tribute to the Indian soldiers who had fought as par...
04 Nov, 2018, 05.01 PM IST
Demolishing statues to renaming roads, here's Bangaluru's politics of uncomfortable historyMark Cubbon was the longest-serving commissioner of the erstwhile Mysore State and arguably the most-remembered British administrator in Be...
24 Aug, 2018, 11.33 AM IST
Garo soldiers of World War I rememberedAbout 1,000 men were recruited in the 69th Garo Labour Corps. However, only 500 were declared fit, of which 456 reached France that year.
13 Jul, 2018, 03.54 PM IST
Cenotaph Monument: Pillar marking 1791's Siege of Bangalore was torn down 53 years agoThe cenotaph was demolished with official sanction on Oct 28, 1964.
26 Oct, 2017, 10.53 AM IST
Barack Obama uses Hiroshima visit as opportunity to urge no nukesSome 140,000 people died after a U.S. warplane targeted wartime Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and 70,000 more perished in Nagasaki, where a se...
28 May, 2016, 08.43 AM IST
Barack Obama at Hiroshima: 'Death fell from the sky'Barack Obama did not apologize, instead offering, in a carefully choreographed display, a simple reflection on the horrors of war.
27 May, 2016, 03.39 PM IST
Is it right to erase history by renaming roads and landmarks?For the past six months, residents of Sampige Road in Malleswaram noticed a board indicating the road's name as Venkatranga Iyengar Road.
18 Dec, 2015, 10.44 AM IST
- UK army chief says al-Qaeda cannot be beaten
General Sir David Richards, the new head of Britain's armed forces, has warned that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam.
14 Nov, 2010, 06.45 PM IST
- Guardian Jodhpur fortress
Walking down Mehrangarh’s ramparts, Arjun Kumar couldn’t help but revisit childhood fascinations and rediscover aspects of the valorous Rat...
23 Oct, 2008, 04.10 AM IST