FBI Director nominee Kash Patel says he was subject to racism while growing upKash Patel, President Trump's nominee for FBI Director, shared his experiences of racism during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation...
31 Jan, 2025, 06.49 PM IST
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni hails role of Indians in building country’s economyReflecting on Uganda's history, particularly the expulsion of Asians, a majority being Indian Ugandans, during Idi Amin's rule, Museveni ac...
22 Jan, 2024, 09.31 AM IST
US announces screening for Ebola virus for travellers from Uganda at airportsThere has been an Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda, and the US has started to screen all travelers from the East African country in four of i...
07 Oct, 2022, 08.24 PM IST
Remembering the East African Indian expulsions: How food came to the rescue of people going through displacement & lossYasmin Alibhai-Brown’s book is a memoir of growing up in Uganda and then becoming part of the diaspora of Indians expelled by Idi Amin, the...
19 Sep, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
How the world's greatest prankster, Alan Abel, made a nation laugh at itselfHere are some of the American entertainer’s epic gags.
25 Sep, 2018, 08.05 AM IST
Indian-origin businessman, who is Africa's youngest billionaire, loses divorce case35-yr-old Ashish Thakkar will have to shell out a hefty alimony to former wife Meera Manek.
23 Feb, 2017, 10.16 AM IST
In the company of effective psychopathsRecent research by Australian psychologists does not assert that all bosses are devils wearing Prada, but a good 20% — one in five — could ...
19 Sep, 2016, 05.38 AM IST
Dictators and their favourite pastimeKim Jong-un likes basketball and Adolf Hitler painting.Remarkably, many despots washed the day's blood off their hands to pursue commonplac...
28 May, 2015, 12.04 PM IST
Narendra Modi is like Idi Amin, Hitler, Mussolini: Abhishek SinghviCongress today put Narendra Modi in the rogue's gallery with the likes of "dictators" Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin and Zia Ul Haq.
17 Apr, 2014, 08.58 PM IST
- Paths of exile
We know this from two more important exiles, one from thousands of years ago and the other contemporary.
01 Feb, 2014, 05.45 AM IST
Queen Elizabeth planned to hit Idi Amin, new book saysThe little-known anecdote was revealed by the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, in his diary.
28 Dec, 2013, 06.29 PM IST
British Prime Minister David Cameron hails contribution of Indian immigrantsCameron today said the thousands of Indians and other Asians who arrived in Britain after being expelled from Uganda 40 years ago had made ...
12 Sep, 2012, 06.23 PM IST
- More trouble for DMK as CBI likely to question Maran
With Kanimozhi, Raja in jail, Maran's questioning will give more ammunition to Jayalalithaa.
16 Jun, 2011, 07.54 AM IST
- Funny authority
Often, dictators and authoritarian characters, downright nasty as they may have been, are dealt a severe blow by posterity.
10 Jan, 2011, 04.22 AM IST
- UK Lower House to include a woman of Indian-origin?
Priti Patel, of Indian, could create history by entering the House of Commons.
28 Mar, 2010, 05.37 PM IST
- Russell Crowe to play Clinton
Crowe would play Clinton in a biopic titled The Special Relationship.
20 Dec, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- There’s much more to Uganda than Idi Amin
The Last King of Scotland, which got Hollywood actor Forest Whitaker an Oscar for his role as Idi Amin, has already put Uganda into interna...
31 Aug, 2007, 04.00 AM IST