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Drinking tea is cool but have you ever tried this Burmese tea leaf salad?

International Tea Day 2025: This Burmese Laphet Thoke recipe will revolutionise the way your taste buds perceive tea!
Published on May 21, 2025 06:17 pm IST

HT This Day: March 11, 1967 -- India, Burma to demarcate border

HT This Day: March 11, 1967 -- India, Burma to demarcate border (HT)
Updated on Mar 10, 2025 03:37 pm IST

The thorny road to democracy in Myanmar

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A squad of Myanmar pro-democracy fighters works to ready drones for an attack on a nearby military base, the target in a wave of aerial assaults that has helped turn the war against the junta.
Published on May 11, 2024 03:51 pm IST

Review: A Man from Motihari byAbdullah Khan

A view of the house in Motihari, Bihar, where George Orwell was born. (Sanchit Khanna/H)
Updated on Apr 21, 2023 05:55 pm IST

Min Aung Hlaing: The military chief who engineered the coup against Suu Kyi

Myanmar military's commander-in-chief sits at the helm of three important ministries — defence, border affairs, and home affairs.
Published on Feb 01, 2021 08:48 pm IST

Singer K Deep’s family seeks financial help for his treatment

Singer K Deep with friends and family members.
Updated on Jun 06, 2020 12:09 am IST

William Dalrymple’s next book being penned through lockdown

No newcomer to the concept of a lockdown, the author is wasting no time on a ‘time-out’; feverishly penning his next work.
Updated on May 03, 2020 05:42 pm IST

At 99, veteran of World War II in India raises £7 million

The money raised will be donated to NHS Charities Together, a group representing various charity organisations linked to the NHS.
Updated on Apr 15, 2020 09:59 pm IST

Understanding the history of the Inner Line Permit in the Northeast

Women take part in a protest demonstration against the Citizenship Amendement Act (CAA), Sivasagar, Assam, December 18, 2019.
Updated on Dec 22, 2019 07:50 pm IST

HT Brunch Cover Story: Five shades of Ayushmann Khurrana!

Shirt, trench coat and jeans, Corneliani; slides, Adidas Originals; Styling by Isha Bhansali; Location: Yashraj Studios; Art direction: Amit Malik; Make up: Hinal Dattani Hair: Hakim Aalim Hair Lounge Pvt Ltd (Mohd Javed)
Updated on Dec 10, 2019 02:58 pm IST

Review: The Lives of Freda by Andrew Whitehead

Tibetan refugees at Missamari Camp in May 1959. Freda Bedi coordinated India’s measures to help the refugees.
Updated on Oct 25, 2019 08:27 pm IST

Desolation through the looking glass

Updated on Oct 25, 2019 04:16 pm IST

HT Picks – the most interesting books of the week

This week’s picks include the story of a marriage, a new novel from a master, and a big book on humanity’s capacity to imagine things into existence.
Updated on Sept 07, 2019 12:49 pm IST

Serving Rohingya food and memories from a lost home

The shy 21-year-old, whose family used to run a chain of restaurants and hotels back home, proudly scooped Shutki for visitors.
Updated on Jun 21, 2019 06:33 pm IST

Foreign policy challenges lie ahead

Restoring a desirable equilibrium will require New Delhi to strengthen relations with the US and China
Updated on May 22, 2019 06:03 pm IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: This 20-year-old student wants scrapping of NEET and safeguarding of quotas

Staunchly against caste system, Inanalam says he is concerned by social injustice.
Updated on Apr 15, 2019 08:24 am IST

Mumbai’s iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus to be restored to its past glory

The sculptures around the ceiling have been painted in gold to resemble its original look.
Updated on Mar 14, 2019 08:09 am IST

Review: The Long Drive Home by Rishad Saam Mehta

Take the long way home: On Russian roads.
Updated on Mar 08, 2019 06:02 pm IST

Landlords in Burma, refugees in Bettiah, 14 families pay a price for returning to homeland

A visit to the refugee colony exposes the sufferings of the ill-fated people. Their dwellings are ramshackle and crumbling.(File)
Updated on Jan 03, 2019 09:41 am IST

This family has brought home a Ganesha for the last 124 years

The Malvis were among the first families in the city to celebrate Ganeshotsav in 1893, when freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak organised the first Ganeshotsav in the city.
Updated on Sept 22, 2018 06:11 am IST

Review: India Moving by Chinmay Tumbe

Old ties; new roots: Supporters of Seewoosagur Ramgolam, the Prime Minister of Mauritius, before he spoke for Mauritian independence during a constitutional conference at Lancaster House, London, on July 19, 1965.
Updated on Sept 14, 2018 09:05 pm IST

Excerpt: India Moving by Chinmay Tumbe

Abhishekh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan celebrating Gudi Padwa at Juhu Chowpatty in Mumbai. Chinmay Tumbe points out that the Rai-Bachchan marriage is a result of two migratory corridors, one from coastal Karnataka and one from east Uttar Pradesh, meeting in Mumbai.
Updated on Jul 06, 2018 07:25 pm IST

UNICEF ambassador Priyanka Chopra urges the world to care for Rohingya refugees

Priyanka Chopra meets Rohingya refugees.
Updated on May 22, 2018 06:26 pm IST

Sunset boulevard: When a bird flies away and another doesn’t

Mahavir Jagdev
Updated on May 19, 2018 10:44 pm IST