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Indian envoy leads celebration of Independence Day in SingaporeIndian High Commissioner Shilpak Ambule celebrated India's 80th Independence Day with diaspora members. He read President Murmu's address a...
In 1969, a Vietnam veteran took a war reminder back home and kept it hidden. 42 years later, he returned them to put a man's soul to restIn 1969, an American Vietnam veteran took personal belongings from a fallen North Vietnamese soldier and kept them hidden for 42 years. On ...
Suspected arrested in World War II Memorial vandalism in Washington, Jeanine Pirro saysA suspect has been apprehended for defacing the World War II Memorial, with Melissa L Farris facing serious felony charges for her disgrace...
Independence Day 2026: From Shershaah to Uri: The Surgical Strike, top 8 movies to watch on 80th Independence DayIndependence Day Movies: Independence Day presents a perfect opportunity to engage with Bollywood films that inspire and empower. Movies su...
World War Two memorial in Washington vandalised with bubbles and graffitiThe World War Two memorial in Washington was vandalised with soap and graffiti. Police and National Guard troops responded to the desecrate...
Independence Day 2026: When Nazi Germany feared its women will fall for magnetic IndiansIndia's Independence Day: Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian Legion in Nazi Germany during World War II reveals a complex alliance shaped by shar...
Being Indian Army Agniveer far better than working in Gulf: Gorkha soldiers protest in NepalFormer Gorkha soldiers demonstrated in Pokhara, Nepal, urging India to restart recruitment. They submitted a memorandum requesting immediat...
In 1995, at age 74, she was named California’s Woman of the Year. At age 86, she became a permanent NPS employee, carrying memories of Amelia Earhart's tragic loss and the 1944 Port Chicago disasterBetty Reid Soskin lived through some of America’s defining moments, remembering Amelia Earhart’s tragic disappearance and the 1944 Port Chi...
India Gate doesn't honour freedom fighters. Know the complex truthIndia Gate, originally a British imperial memorial, now holds multiple layers of history. It commemorates soldiers who served the British E...
Did Churchill let 30 lakh Indians die? A journo took on Amartya SenMadhusree Mukerjee's book revived the debate on the 1943 Bengal Famine, questioning Amartya Sen's analysis of food entitlement failures. Ne...
In 1943, Germany deployed a rare World War II torpedo boat. 83 years later, divers found the vessel nearly intact on the Ionian seabed, ending a decade-long search and potentially identifying the last surviving boat of its typeGerman WWII torpedo boat discovered: Researchers located the rare German naval boat LS 6 in the Ionian Sea. This vessel sank off western Gr...
Quote of the day by Alan Furst: 'Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time...' - inspiring quote by author of Night Soldiers and The Polish Officer teaches life lessons on character, human nature and what separates good people from bad peopleQuote of the day by Alan Furst: Novelist Alan Furst suggests good people focus on daily life and simple pleasures. Bad people, conversely, ...
Anand Mahindra praises Operation Safed Sagar series, hails IAF innovationAnand Mahindra praised the Operation Safed Sagar series for showcasing the Indian Air Force's (IAF) pivotal role in the Kargil war. He expr...
Quote of the Day by Winston Churchill: ‘It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the…’ - Ex-UK PM’s powerful words on determination and successWinston Churchill's stirring quote encapsulates the vital link between victory and survival, a truth that is as applicable in today's world...
Code Name Silver: The Indian spy who played 5 sides in World War IIKnown by the British codename “Silver”, Talwar operated across German, Italian, Soviet, British and Japanese intelligence networks while ma...
Meet Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja: Indian Maharaja who saved 1,000 Polish children from the Nazis during World War IIMeet Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, the Maharaja of Nawanagar who in 1942 opened his princely state to nearly 1,000 Polish children fl...
In 1941, a Black American scientist and industrialist and business magnate built a car with never-seen-before plastic made from soybean and other crops: How the soybean car became an early experiment in plant-based automobilesIn 1941, a Black American scientist and industrialist and business magnate built a car with never-seen-before plastic made from soybean and...
Built to hunt enemy submarines during World War II, this device later transformed our understanding of the seafloorWorld War II fluxgate magnetometer: A World War II device found new scientific purpose after the war. Oceanographers refitted the fluxgate ...
CCTV cameras were first used to monitor Nazi V-2 rockets: Here's how wartime technology became a global surveillance toolCCTV technology originated in 1942 for monitoring Nazi rocket launches. Early systems lacked recording capabilities, making them impractica...
How Polish resistance fighters stole Hitler's 'wonder weapon' and smuggled it to Britain in one of WWII's boldest missionsPolish resistance fighters undertook a daring World War II mission. They successfully stole and hid Adolf Hitler's top-secret V2 rocket. Th...