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UK adds names of 33,000 Indian soldiers missing from First World War memorial

UK adds names of 33,000 Indian soldiers missing from First World War memorial
us news
Published on Apr 24, 2026 07:53 pm IST

Tom Stoppard and the triviality of history

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Tom Stoppard at the Jaipur Literature Festival on 22 January 2012. (Jasjeet Plaha/Hindustan Times)
books
Published on Dec 02, 2025 05:12 pm IST

When a German torpedo sank Ambedkar's PhD thesis

When a German torpedo sank Ambedkar's PhD thesis
india news
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 04:05 pm IST

Two years of the Ukraine war: All eyes on US as fate hangs in balance

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (C), her husband Bo Tengberg (C) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) arrive to lay flowers during a memorial ceremony at the Field of Mars of Lychakiv Cemetery, in Lviv, on February 23, 2024. (AFP)
india news
Updated on Feb 24, 2024 05:44 am IST

Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun

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Ukrainian servicemen fire a howitzer towards Russian troops at a position near the frontline town of Bakhmut, amid Russia’s attack, in Donetsk region, Ukraine. (REUTERS)
world news
Published on Aug 13, 2023 12:21 am IST

Making a case for the Classics: Henry Eliot’s open letter to the millennials

The word ‘classic’ is such an over-used term it’s easy to lose sight of what it means
brunch
Published on Apr 25, 2020 10:42 pm IST

Oak tree symbolizing Trump-Macron friendship dead

The sapling, a gift from Macron on the occasion of his state visit, is gone from the lawn.
world news
Updated on Jun 10, 2019 11:47 am IST

Celebrating Einstein, the scientist-statesman

Many of science’s most well recognised symbols are related to one specific scientist. Be they equations (E = mc2), theories (that one about relativity), or even the most popular idea of the “mad scientist” look. This person is Albert Einstein
editorials
Updated on Apr 19, 2019 07:40 pm IST

Life-changing reads of 2018

Five authors pick a book each that taught them a new lesson this year
brunch
Updated on Dec 15, 2018 10:27 pm IST

Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu meets Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron at World War 1 commemoration banquet

Vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu met United States president Donald Trump and French president Emmanuel Macron at a banquet hosted by the latter in honour of Heads of States who are attending a ceremony in Paris to commemorate the Armistice of First World War.
india news
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 10:35 am IST

Duty and loyalty on display in the First World War

Subedar Major Thakur Singh, who participated in World War-I. Picture clicked from an old photograph at his grandson’s residence, in Sector-04 in Panchkula, Haryana.
world news
Updated on Nov 12, 2018 12:24 am IST

British rewarded India’s help in World War 1 by imposing draconian laws, writes Shashi Tharoor

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Kasturba at a reception given in Ahmedabad in 1915. Gandhi returned to India from South Africa that year
india news
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 02:36 pm IST

Statue honouring Sikh soldiers who fought for Britain during WW-1 to be installed in UK

Indian infantrymen on the march in France during World War I.
world news
Updated on Jun 21, 2018 10:48 pm IST

Book review: Meet the detective who can fill the gap between Sherlock Holmes and James Bond

Wiggins of the Baker Street Irregulars is the protagonist of this book.
books
Updated on Apr 08, 2018 04:38 pm IST

Adolf Hitler’s portrait of French lover to go up for auction, expected to fetch $74,000

The signature of former German dictator Adolf Hitler is seen on a painting of the old registry office in Munich, at Weidler auction house in Nuremberg November 18, 2014.
art culture
Updated on Apr 05, 2018 07:19 pm IST
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