Nostradamus predicted World War 1 and World War 2. What did he say about World War 3? Details hereFrench astrologer Nostradamus is believed to have predicted the Great Fire of London, the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and Adolf...
11 Jun, 2024, 08.50 PM IST
Celebrating what the comrades startedMarch 8, 1917, saw Soviet female textile workers in Petrograd (today's Saint Petersburg) participate in a huge, citywide protest. Their dem...
08 Mar, 2023, 12.58 AM IST
Did you forget World War 1 & 2? Prince William says bloodshed not normal in Europe amid Ukraine crisis, Twitter users give him history lessonsTwitter users called out the Duke of Cambridge for his 'racist' remark.
10 Mar, 2022, 01.06 PM IST
Republic Day parade's first marching contingent is world's only active horsed cavalry regimentThe regiment has the unique distinction of leading the last recorded cavalry charge in history when it took on the Turks at the battle of H...
26 Jan, 2022, 11.39 AM IST
The Donald, the Adolf, The Silliness ContinuesDonald sympathisers — never mind those yellow starry-eyed about the bad old führer — may say that unpleasant truths are still truths. Trump...
07 Jul, 2021, 11.35 PM IST
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Keynes was an exceptional early advocate of equities as the future of finance, but he was a bit ahead of his time in Britain. But in US, ta...
30 Apr, 2021, 12.40 PM IST
View: GDP is a flawed way of figuring out how well a country is doing, but it mattersThere are many things wrong with GDP but it also measures the economic performance of a govt.
22 Sep, 2019, 04.08 PM IST
100 years on, World War 1 gave us plastic surgery, tanks, submarinesIt also gave the world, divided clothing for women.
12 Dec, 2018, 09.26 AM IST
Venkaiah Naidu bats for multilateralism at World War I eventNaidu interacted with US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emm...
13 Nov, 2018, 08.24 AM IST
Queen Elizabeth launches British commemorations 100 years after World War OneThe royal family and Prime Minister Theresa May were due to watch leading actors, authors, singers and military bands lead the tributes at ...
11 Nov, 2018, 09.08 AM IST
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump set to meet in Paris on November 11Both presidents plan to be in Paris for events to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One, and they are planning to hold a bi...
24 Oct, 2018, 06.47 AM IST
A century of the princely Re 1 'coin'!The last hundred years -- the first note was introduced on November 30, 1917, with the photo of King George V -- have been all but tumultuo...
30 Nov, 2017, 02.36 PM IST
Mysore Lancers did India proud in battle for HaifaIn 1918, the Mysore Lancers, personal army of the Mysore Maharaja, played a crucial role in winning one of the greatest battles of World Wa...
05 Jul, 2017, 10.41 AM IST
Indian armed forces can tackle designs of terror outfits: Pranab MukherjeeThe President said a hundred years ago, the youth of many a nation were wasted on account of human greed and misguided notions.
10 Mar, 2015, 10.27 PM IST
Army to commemorate sacrifice of Indian soldiers in World War 1The Army will be commemorating the centenary of the First World War from March 10-14 in memory of the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who fough...
09 Mar, 2015, 03.21 PM IST
Arun Jaitley asks officials to start work on war historyDefence Minister Arun Jaitley today directed officials to start the process of bringing out a war history of the Indian armed forces .
05 Nov, 2014, 10.44 PM IST
British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to visit Delhi on October 30The UK has funded a battlefield guide book which will be available through USI for those families wishing to visit the battlefields.
28 Oct, 2014, 03.55 PM IST