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Quote of the day by Winston Churchill: ‘Success is not final, failure is not…'

Winston Churchill was a former British Prime Minister.
Published on May 01, 2026 06:00 pm IST

'Not Churchill': Trump slams UK PM Starmer after rift over Iran strikes

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump met recently.
Updated on Mar 04, 2026 09:01 am IST

New Zealand's top diplomat in London loses his job over remarks about Trump

New Zealand's top diplomat in London loses his job over remarks about Trump
Published on Mar 07, 2025 07:59 am IST

Italian lawyer pays £4,200 for ‘copy’ of iconic inston Churchill photo

Italian lawyer Cassinelli received Winston Churchill's portrait after spending £2,000 to get it cleared through customs and shipped to Genoa, Italy.
Published on Nov 18, 2024 08:58 pm IST

Winston Churchill portrait returns to Ottawa after international art caper

Winston Churchill portrait returns to Ottawa after international art caper
Published on Nov 16, 2024 12:06 am IST

Stolen Churchill portrait found in Italy—how a brazen art heist gripped Canada

October 1939: Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) making a speech. Churchill’s unfavourable views on Indians aggravated food scarcity during the Great Bengal Famine of 1943.
Published on Sept 12, 2024 09:07 pm IST

Historic room at Buckingham Palace opens to public for first time

Buckingham Palace’s balcony room opens for tours
Published on Jul 11, 2024 12:35 pm IST

Mahatma Gandhi, a global citizen of his time and ours

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Mahatma Gandhi led the 1930 Salt March. The march allowed him to rouse the people in the villages through which he passed. (SOURCED)
Published on Jun 02, 2024 11:26 pm IST

Budweiser, not Churchill: Ron DeSantis' embarrassing gaffe in his last speech

Winston Churchill, Ron DeSantis and Budweiser
Published on Jan 22, 2024 10:18 pm IST

‘Honoured’: PM Modi accepts invite to address US Congress for 2nd time

Besides the address to the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the state visit, is expected to meet President Joe Biden for a private dinner on June 21 (ANI)
Updated on Jun 19, 2023 11:41 am IST

Separated by a wall, raised solely on basis of religion

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The ghost of the shadow war Pakistan embraced has now engulfed it. The dream of Quaid-I-Azam MA Jinnah is being destroyed (HT ARCHIVE)
Updated on Apr 09, 2023 07:51 pm IST

Explained: Queen's state funeral will be UK's first since Winston Churchill

Queen Elizabeth II Funeral: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
Published on Sept 10, 2022 11:00 am IST

Angelina Jolie auctions off Winston Churchill painting for $11.5 million

Christie's employees adjust an oil on canvas painting by Sir Winston Churchill painted in Jan. 1943 called 'Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque' during an Art pre-sale photo call at Christie's auction house in London. The Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction on Monday March 1, 2021, for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a work by Britain’s World War II leader.
Published on Mar 02, 2021 11:25 am IST

Landscape painted by Churchill, which was gifted to Roosevelt, up for auction

Churchill wartime painting gift to Roosevelt up for auction
Published on Feb 18, 2021 09:32 am IST

Bags- Inside Out: This London museum’s historical handbag exhibit may stun you

A museum employee poses next to a display of handbags that form part of the 'Bags: Inside Out' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Published on Dec 09, 2020 10:16 am IST

Brunch Focus: ‘Never waste a good crisis’

Neeraj Govil, Senior Vice President – South Asia, Marriott International, has solid views on the hospitality business
Updated on Oct 11, 2020 01:16 pm IST

Radhika Apte as real-life British spy Noor Inayat Khan in A Call To Spy. See pic

Radhika Apte as Noor Inayat Khan in A Call To Spy.
Updated on Jul 09, 2020 04:17 pm IST

UK PM Boris Johnson’s new anti-racism commission triggers row

Labour dismissed the announcement of the new commission to look into inequalities in employment, health and other aspects of life.
Published on Jun 15, 2020 11:07 pm IST

UK’s Priti Patel condemns covering Churchill statue before protests

Police reportedly took offense after Priti Patel called out officers in Bristol for not intervening when protesters pulled down the statue on June 8.
Published on Jun 13, 2020 04:12 pm IST

‘Absurd and shameful’ that Churchill statue is at risk of attack: Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson said on Friday it was “absurd and shameful” that a statue of Winston Churchill was at risk of attack by protesters
Updated on Jun 12, 2020 05:20 pm IST

Indian soldiers remembered as UK marks Victory in Europe Day

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson observes a 2 minute silence in Downing street to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), the end of the Second World War in Europe in London.
Updated on May 08, 2020 05:58 pm IST

Use the Covid crisis to spur systemic changes

The coronavirus crisis provides the call to arms to reset our under-invested health care system
Updated on Mar 19, 2020 05:56 pm IST

The subtle humour in paraprosdokians, writes Karan Thapar

Churchill was one politician who used paraprosdokians to great effect. Often the United States was his target
Updated on Oct 19, 2019 08:43 pm IST

Gold retriever: Solid gold toilet, once offered to Donald Trump, stolen from London palace

In this file photo taken on September 15, 2016, a fully functioning solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, is going into public use at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. - Thieves have stolen an 18-karat gold toilet from an exhibition of artworks at Britain's Blenheim Palace, police said Saturday -- causing signficant flooding. The fully-functioning piece by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, dubbed "America", went on show at the southern English stately home on Thursday. (Photo by William EDWARDS / AFP)
Updated on Sept 15, 2019 01:51 pm IST

The two faces of Winston Churchill

Defender of national freedom at home, upholder of racial oppression abroad — such were the paradoxical politics of Winston Churchill
Updated on Feb 24, 2019 11:38 am IST

Gandhi did not want and does not need statues

September 2016 photo of Gandhi’s status in the University of Ghana
Updated on Dec 18, 2018 11:48 am IST

Radhika Apte to work with Castle star Stana Katic in new WWII movie

Radhika Apte will work with Stana Katic in her first international project.
Updated on Apr 15, 2018 09:45 am IST