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Football, Germany’s antidote through World Wars and Cold War, tasked with uniting the nation at Euro 2024
June 14, 2024 5:58 pm
Throughout the 20th century, the country went through a lot of strife and upheaval, but the people's game was an antidote to survive the tough times, a football historian recounts.
UK govt imposes temporary export ban on painting depicting Indian soldiers who fought for the British during WW1
April 15, 2023 10:11 pm
The government hopes to find a domestic buyer for the painting by Anglo-Hungarian artist Philip de László
World should respond to climate change as if hit by a global war, Pope tells COP26
November 03, 2021 4:36 pm
Rich countries owed an "ecological debt" to make amends for the "disproportionate use of the natural resources of one's own and of other countries", he said.
Punjab village that sent 73 men to World War-I marks its 100 years quietly
December 22, 2018 12:48 pm
Soldiers from this village had not just fought the WW-1, but Indo-Afghan War in 1880, World War 2, Indo-Pak wars (1962, 1965 and 1971) and Kargil battle in 1999.
‘It was our little Poland in India’: WW-II survivors to visit Jamnagar camp today where ex-ruler offered them shelter
September 30, 2018 3:36 am
Around 1,000 Polish children, many of them orphans, were hosted at camp Balachadi — the seaside summer resort of the then ruler — after they were allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1942
Haryana: 98 yrs later, soil from WW-I hero’s memorial brought home
May 04, 2016 7:37 am
Haryana Agriculture Minister O P Dhankar brought the soil from the memorial during his recent trip to Egypt.
British enlisted Indian children during World War-I, new book reveals
October 25, 2015 5:14 pm
The account by writer and historian Shrabani Basu is based on official papers at the National Archives and British Library.
Australian survivor of WWII 'Great Escape' dies aged 101
August 28, 2015 10:42 am
Royle died Sunday at a Perth hospital following surgery on a hip fracture that he suffered in a fall in a nursing home three weeks ago, his son Gordon Royle said.
Theatre review: The play about war and peace leaves you restless yet spellbound
November 25, 2014 12:17 pm
The play was a tragic comedy, pulling emotional chords in a subtle and amusing way.
Of literary leanings and World War anecdotes
October 12, 2014 4:27 am
Brian McCall spoke about the Indian commemoration programmes in the UK and also the plans for India for which he has been working for the last two years.
WORLD WAR PHOTOS
World War I - The assassination that changed the world
June 27, 2014 6:50 pm
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, and event which eventually led to the outbreak of World War I.
WORLD WAR VIDEOS
The day the first and the only time atomic bombs were unleashed on Hiroshima, Japan
June 22, 2020 6:20 pm
It was a day like no other. The day the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, during World War II.
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