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‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ Review: A Gangland Drama’s Nazi Plot

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Cillian Murphy
Published on Mar 20, 2026 11:27 am IST

When does daylight saving time start in 2026? What to know

The clock change comes shortly before the start of spring, which begins with the Vernal Equinox on March 20.
Published on Mar 07, 2026 07:29 pm IST

WWI soldiers' messages found in bottle on Australian beach over 100 years later

Inside the clear, thick glass were cheerful letters written in pencil by Privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, dated Aug. 15, 1916.
Updated on Oct 29, 2025 12:32 pm IST

Papa Buka: Heading to Oscars, movie on forgotten Indian soldiers

Papa Buka is an enigmatic and charming character, at home both in time and space. (NAFA Productions/Akshay Parija productions)
Updated on Oct 12, 2025 09:06 pm IST

What is Memorial Day all about? History and significance explained

Memorial Day is observed on last Monday of May
Published on May 25, 2025 09:54 am IST

Paul Mescal shuts down comparisons of Brokeback Mountain with History of Sound

Paul Mescal has commented on the similarities with Brokeback Mountain with The History of Sound.
Updated on May 22, 2025 08:46 pm IST

Trump declares May 8 a national holiday. Here's what to know

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for the new U.S. ambassador to China, former U.S. Senator David Perdue, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Published on May 08, 2025 06:48 pm IST

Trump proposes to rename Veterans Day and recognise May 8 as Victory Day

Trump called for renaming Veterans Day to Victory Day for World War I and establishing May 8 as Victory Day for World War II, emphasising the need to celebrate US military victories.
Updated on May 02, 2025 08:46 pm IST

Donald Trump intends to rename two US holidays to Victory Day

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to graduating students at the Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama on May 01, 2025 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Published on May 02, 2025 10:14 am IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes an account of Indian sepoys in World War 1, a book on Indian modernity seen from the location of men in the home, and a crime thriller. (Akash Shrivastav)
Published on Mar 07, 2025 10:48 pm IST

The Girl with the Needle review: Denmark's Oscar nominee is a gothic fairy tale

The Girl With The Needle is available to watch on Mubi.
Updated on Jan 25, 2025 06:13 am IST

Event commemorating liberation of Haifa by Indian soldiers cancelled due to tensions in region

Event commemorating liberation of Haifa by Indian soldiers cancelled due to tensions in region
Published on Sept 23, 2024 12:31 pm IST

Wildbuzz | Dogs at war with trench rats

Pet terrier of the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army with its catch of rats in the trenches on the Western Front during World War I. (Imperial War Museums, The UK)
Updated on Sept 22, 2024 08:04 am IST

HH Asquith, on the precipice of propriety

Herbert Henry Asquith, the Earl of Oxford, who was prime minister of Britain from 1908 to 1916 (Government of the United Kingdom/Wikimedia Commons)
Published on Sept 14, 2024 08:59 pm IST

Listicle: 10 grand gates that you must pass through on holiday

India Gate, Delhi, was built to pay homage to the 70,000 Indian soldiers who died in World War I. (ILLUSTRATIONS: MALAY KARMAKAR)
Updated on Aug 30, 2024 02:36 pm IST

Trump deletes ‘unified Reich’ video from Truth Social after severe backlash

Former US President Donald Trump, center, and Todd Blanche, attorney for former US President Donald Trump, right, at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign. Photographer: Justin Lane/EPA/Bloomberg
Published on May 21, 2024 11:06 pm IST

Donald Trump invokes Nazi Germany in poll video, calls for 'unified Reich'

Former US President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign. Photographer: Mark Peterson/New York Magazine/Bloomberg
Published on May 21, 2024 10:11 am IST

When nations go to war, democracy is under stress

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Smoke rising from the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombardment on October 29. (AFP Photo)
Published on Oct 30, 2023 12:36 pm IST

Explained: Why the 155 mm howitzer round is so critical in Russia-Ukraine war

Ukrainian service members ride a self-propelled howitzer, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the front line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine April 7.
Published on Apr 23, 2023 10:57 am IST

UK imposes export bar on painting of Indian soldiers during World War I

The painting of two World War I Indian soldiers placed under an export bar by the UK government this week, in London.
Published on Apr 15, 2023 05:30 pm IST

Israeli envoy recalls key role of India in WW-I

Israeli ambassador to India Naor Gilon said Jews have lived “for over 2,000 years in India in total equality and peacefully”.
Published on Jan 25, 2022 04:01 am IST

Ambala Christian cemetery in ruins amid battle for possession

The Christian Cemetery in Ambala Cantonment.
Updated on Nov 17, 2020 11:18 pm IST

Several wounded in WWI memorial attack at Jeddah cemetery for non-Muslims: France

Wednesday’s blast came as French President Emmanuel Macron, the target of ire in much of the Muslim world for vowing to confront Islamist radicalism following a spate of attacks, attended a WWI memorial ceremony in Paris
Updated on Nov 11, 2020 05:23 pm IST

Watches: Wearing his heart on his wrist

At the Swiss Observatory Trials in 1968, a Grand Seiko ranked higher in accuracy than any other competing Swiss mechanical movement
Updated on Sept 06, 2020 07:38 am IST

Reading books, with your ears

As it becomes increasingly difficult to find time to sit in one place for extended periods of time to read a book, the habit of listening to something — such as audiobooks and podcasts — while commuting, driving, or doing other work around the house, appears to be here to stay
Updated on Nov 22, 2019 08:55 pm IST

The fatal dose: Poison in Agatha Christie’s works

Agatha Christie had worked as a nurse in a Red Cross hospital during World War I. In her autobiography, she writes of her slack periods when all she did was “sit around in a room surrounded by poisons”.
Published on Nov 02, 2019 06:26 pm IST

The Geneva Convention tempers war with compassion

Indian Air Force pilot, Abhinandan Varthaman, after being released from Pakistani custody. In a climate of uncertainty and open hostility between nations, the Geneva Conventions play an important role in tempering the aggression of war with a touch of compassion
Published on Jul 26, 2019 07:42 pm IST

Let’s tree again: Emmanuel Macron offers Donald Trump replacement ‘friendship’ oak

The two leaders recently marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day together.
Updated on Jun 13, 2019 12:04 pm IST

The UK must apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

A scene of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Amritsar, 1999. The apology for the massacre should have come in 1919 itself , when the issue was discussed in the British Parliament
Updated on Feb 22, 2019 02:14 pm IST

PM Narendra Modi to dedicate National War Memorial to country

A view of the under-construction National War Memorial, at India Gate Lawns, in New Delhi.
Updated on Feb 06, 2019 08:58 am IST