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Of faith, fervour and family: Durga Puja celebrations in rural BengalUnlike Kolkata's commercial celebrations, the rural Puja meticulously upholds faith and tradition, reaffirming precious family bonds and gr...- Why the founder of British Indian empire slit his own throatIn 1774, Robert Clive, a controversial figure in British India, died. Clive rose from a clerk to a military leader, securing British contro...
- England-Zimbabwe 2025 Test: when & where to watch, venue, weather update, and full squadsEngland and Zimbabwe are set to renew bilateral cricket ties after 22 years with a historic four-day Test match at Trent Bridge. This landm...
- Oxford University to honour New Zealand ex-PM Jacinda Ardern, Sir Mo Farah, 7 others with honorary degreesFormer New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, recognized for her leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, will receive an honorary degr...
- Welcome to the Bigg Boss world of doing business, where the 30-sec spectacle is kingDonald Trump's unconventional approach to diplomacy, illustrated by his confrontational meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signals a shift t...
- Queen Elizabeth II left sealed death-bed letter for son Charles, claims new biographyQueen Elizabeth II, who passed away in September 2022 at the age of 96, reportedly left a sealed death-bed letter for her son and heir, Kin...
- Six crypto investment lessons you can learn from Ranveer Singh starrer '83'Kabir Khan's directorial skills, a star-studded performance, and a story based on real-life events made a heady concoction on the big scree...
- Test cricket and the English: Your Test for our cotton, natives!There’s something I’ve realised about Test cricket and the English. It is sacred to them. As sacred as The Empire, the Netflix show The Cro...
- Spare a Thought for Mir Jafar TomorrowIndia isn’t the only country that reads a ‘bad guy’ from history unfairly.
- UK imposes export bar on 1-million pound colonial era Mughal dagger, scabbard"This beautiful example of a Mughal dagger and scabbard has a lot to teach us about both the British in India and the nature of diplomatic ...
- View: The Left must privilege national politics over the local in the upcoming assembly electionsThe upcoming round of assembly elections in Bengal, Assam and Kerala will have a large bearing on national politics, the outcome of the con...
- Future of Gandhi's statue in Wales in question after slave trade reviewWales has a bronze sculpture of Gandhi at Cardiff Bay, unveiled in 2017 to mark the 148th birth anniversary of the leader of the Indian nat...
- View: History is distorted by every group; setting that right is tougher than toppling statuesPulling down a statue is relatively easy. What’s far more difficult is presenting a historical counter-narrative to the one that has been f...
- SCs of Veerashaiva/Lingayat sect to lose reservation if separate religion tag given: Union ministerYesterday, the Karnataka government accepted a proposal to grant a separate religion status to the Lingayat community.
- India, UK in ugly spat over spot in International Court of JusticeWhat has angered India, which is actively working to thwart Britain’s move, is that the mechanism has never been used in ICJ history to bre...
- Subramanian Swamy terms IDFC's Rs 550-crore loan to GST Network as 'loot'"Scandal: IDFC gives a loan of Rs 550 crore today to GSTN. Guarantor: GOI, not majority shareholders! Why? Looting India Robert Clive way,"...
- Dear Shashi Tharoor, the fault was not in the Raj, but in ourselvesTharoor sought reparations for the Raj. These being mainly moral reparations, yes, but coming out of a conviction that the Raj was a very b...
- Sony hackers reveal Hollywood stars' secret aliasesThe latest Sony hacking leak revealed aliases and fake names which were used by celebrities to protect their privacy during film shoots.
- Meet book collector Alok Nanda who owns around 2,000 antiquarian booksAs founder of a design agency, his collection began as a work-related activity, but he now owns around 2,000 antiquarian books.
- KKR, Permira close in on German broadcasterKohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and Permira Advisers are close to winning the auction for ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Germany’s biggest broadcaster,...
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