Tintin, Popeye, Hemingway among US copyrights expiring in 2025Numerous artistic works, including 'A Farewell to Arms,' cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, and Tintin, will enter the public domain in t...
01 Jan, 2025, 10.34 AM IST
India and Germany good partners, both regionally rooted but globally committed: Rear Admiral Helge RischIndia and Germany, both democratic nations with shared values and interests, are enhancing their naval cooperation. Rear Admiral Helge Risc...
26 Oct, 2024, 02.40 PM IST
An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength. Member troops know Russia is watchingSweden, NATO’s newest member, is participating, highlighting how Russia's actions in Ukraine have shifted Europe’s security landscape. The ...
12 Mar, 2024, 12.20 PM IST
Israeli Defense Minister pledges country will defend Red Sea against terroristsIsrael's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited an Israeli Navy ship in the Gulf of Eilat, discussing operational readiness against threats ...
21 Dec, 2023, 07.29 AM IST
Jean Paul Gaultier returns to ready-to-wear fashion after six yearsThe "enfant terrible" of French fashion bowed out after five decades in the business with a final Paris haute couture show 16 months ago.
27 May, 2021, 06.52 PM IST
Popeye was right about spinach!Of course, more than a few cans of it are needed to grow magical muscles.
28 Jun, 2019, 09.13 AM IST
Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel urge 'full' Ukraine ceasefire ahead of planned truceThe 2015 Minsk summit laid out a ceasefire and international monitoring in eastern Ukraine, but a pro-Russian insurgency has persisted.
29 Dec, 2018, 10.19 AM IST
View: The 1917 Russian Revolution was a German plotWas Lenin a German agent, as critics claim? Surely not. But without German assistance, he would not have come to power.
05 Nov, 2017, 10.21 AM IST
How Christopher Nolan forgot the Indian soldiers at Dunkirk in his epic war-movieThe British public is more well-informed today about the Indian role in the world wars.
23 Jul, 2017, 10.11 AM IST
BSF food row: Military's gripe over meals is nothing new; here's what history tells usArmies march on their stomachs, said Napoleon Bonaparte (his actual words were ‘C’est le soupe qui fait le soldat’ or ‘it’s the soup that m...
14 Jan, 2017, 11.40 AM IST
Navy submarine INS Sindhughosh collides with fishing boat, periscope damagedThe 3,000-tonne submarine INS Sindhughosh, which was participating in the major naval exercise Tropex in the Arabian Sea.
23 Feb, 2015, 10.07 AM IST
Submarine INS Sindhukirti stuck in refit for 8 yearsDiesel-electric submarine INS Sindhukirti has been stuck in a refit at an Indian shipyard for the last eight years.
07 Mar, 2014, 10.55 AM IST
Are India's ageing submarines going the MiG-21 way?The Tejas light combat aircraft was slated to replace the obsolete MiG-21 in the 1990s but is still at least two years away from becoming f...
16 Aug, 2013, 09.51 AM IST
Sindhurakshak sinking a set-back for the NavyThe loss of one of its youngest and most capable submarines--INS Sindhurakshak, is a big setback for the Navy.
14 Aug, 2013, 08.02 PM IST
- 2 German sailors detained in India over death
Germany says two of its citizens were temporarily detained in India after their ship was allegedly involved in a fatal collision with a loc...
27 Mar, 2013, 09.24 PM IST
- Nigerian Navy goes after pirates who abducted five Indians
On September 4, pirates hijacked MT Abu Dhabi Star owned by a Singaporean firm off the shores of Nigeria with its 23 Indian sailors on boar...
20 Dec, 2012, 12.26 PM IST
- Indian and US navies hold submarine rescue operations
At present, Indian sailors only bank upon "submarine escape pressurized suits'', or the help of diving support ships like INS Nireekshak, b...
26 Oct, 2012, 10.12 AM IST