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Aaron Rai’s long grind to The WanamakerAaron Rai secured the 2026 PGA Championship title with a remarkable final round. His victory at Aronimink Golf Club marked a significant ac...
International Mother Language Day: Bangladesh’s tryst with destiny73 years ago, Bengali people in East Pakistan protested against the imposition of Urdu as the national language, which led to the martyrdom...
- America's Old Tryst With Kinich Ahau
Unlike what we, in Asia, consider to be GAE - the decline of the US as a global power - Monday's phenomenon was the celestial spectacle of ...
Excuse me, is it past noon on the moon?So, while Indians were en masse celebrating midnight mass, in the country that finally left India to itself, the summer time would have bee...
Moving quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Tryst With Destiny' speech"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."
Rahul Gandhi greets people on 75th anniversary of Independence"'To India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh t...
August 15, 1947: There were twists in India’s tryst with destinyAs the records of the Constituent Assembly show, the task of speaking till midnight fell to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who would go on to be...
India's iconic circular Parliament, where country began its 'tryst with destiny'The current building has been witness to historic and epoch-changing events -- be it revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt thro...
HV Kamath: The contrarian who became legendary for his antics and interjectionsKamath was industrious, energetic and, in hindsight, could be seen as prescient in many of his proposed amendments. But he also had a talen...
Passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill: India's tryst with bigotry, says Priyanka GandhiThe Congress general secretary's remarks came after the CAB was passed in the Lok Sabha with 311 members favouring it and 80 voting against...
BJP ministers, office-bearers to sell GST as biggest reform everPrior to the GST launch on June 30, finance minister Arun Jaitley had written letters to all ministers thanking them for their “inspired co...
GST is India's new tryst with destiny: CII President, Shobana KamineniTouted as the biggest taxation reform since Independence, GST, set to come into effect from July 1, will unify 16 different taxes including...
GST will be India's 'economic freedom': Anil AmbaniAmbani said there are moments in the life of a nation when history is made not in small steps of incremental gain but in giant leaps of amb...
An old speech packs quite a musical punchNehru’s great grandson has none of the illustrious forebear’s lyrical charm. His short, staccato sentences call for a percussion instrument...
Nehru's 'Tryst with destiny' becomes a jazz score, wins GrammyTed Nash's score featuring pitches and cadences of Nehru's speech won the Grammy for 'Best Instrumental Composition'.
Rahul Bajaj, K Radhakrishnan to get IMA's lifetime achievement awardBajaj and Radhakrishnan will be felicitated at a function at the 24th international management conclave of IMA on February 6, IMA president...
Even without the thunder of firecrackers, good should scare away evilDiwali is also the celebration of the return of the NRA: the non-resident Ayodhyan, a worthy symbol of the return of any émigré.
- India to take top position among comity of nations: Jaimini Bhagwati
The Indian High Commissioner to the UK made the statement at a function to celebrate the country's Independence Day in London.
- Pak Government’s tryst with destiny
Often, events in Pakistan seem to descend into the realm of pure farce.
- Nation pays homage to Nehru
A large number of children dressed in white khadi visited Shanti Van, his memorial, to pay tributes to their 'Chacha' Nehru.