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India up to any challenge: PM

India up to any challenge

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that India would retaliate with double the force if anyone tried to harm its sovereignty. He was speaking at the Red Fort, where, in a first, a Prime Minister unfurled the tricolour to commemorate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army. “Our military …

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Red Fort to witness another flag hoisting

Red Fort to witness another flag hoisting

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join a flag-hoisting ceremony at the Red Fort on Sunday to mark the 75th anniversary of the ‘Azad Hind government’ headed by Subhas Chandra Bose. Interacting with BJP workers via video-conference on Wednesday, Mr. Modi announced his plans to attend the ceremony. Traditionally, the Prime …

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Bengal’s archives trace colonial footprints

Bengal’s archives trace colonial footprints

In 1833, Purandhar Singh, an aspirant to the throne of the Ahom (Assam) was placed in charge of upper Assam even as lower Assam continued to be under the direct control of the British. In 1836, he sought permission from the colonial government to mint coins in his own name …

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Bulgaria urged to save giant monument

Perched like a vast flying saucer on a central Bulgarian mountainside, Buzludzha is a brutalist concrete monument that was built to glorify communism nearly 40 years ago. The striking circular building has been left to fall victim to vandalism and decay, as Bulgaria has been eager to forget its communist …

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Going live, a Rembrandt restoration

The overhaul ofThe Night Watchwill be done under the public eye and will be streamed online Art lovers will be soon be able to watch one of the world’s most famous paintings being restored live and online. Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch will undergo a multi-million-euro overhaul at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum …

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Korean war memorial to be built in Delhi

To commemorate India’s role in war which ended in 1953 A Korean War memorial will be built in New Delhi to commemorate India’s role in the war which ended in an armistice in 1953. “India and South Korea have agreed on building the war memorial. Administrative processes are on,” South …

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Mike Pompeo and the new ‘Cold War’

It was a day when the gloves were off. The spiralling trade war between China and the U.S. visibly mutated into what appeared to be the beginning of a new Cold War. On October 8, when Beijing was in its mid-autumn prime, Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, wheeled …

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