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Inspired by great writers' depiction of grand cities, British historian Jason Goodwin sought to immortalise the Ottoman Empire's imposing capital, which not only straddles continents but also cultures and eras, in fiction and found recreating the ambiance of 19th century Istanbul owed as much to a stint in Calcutta of the 1980s as c...
The Indian Ocean cannot be a backyard of India which navies of other countries could not visit, according the Chinese ministry of defence here....
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Terming the recently delivered order of the Madras High Court that directed the rapist to mediate with the victim as "illegal" and "unwarranted", legal eagles pitched for delivering justice instead of referring it for "settlement"....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the personal attention he has paid to foreign policy, lifted bilateral engagement to an entirely different level within a year of assuming office. There was international relief when he released the pause button that the engagement with the global community had been put into and injected the much...
The experience of the Emergency - 19 months of undemocratic rule in India, without civil liberties - is now a distant memory. For the young, it is a paragraph in history books. Those who do not remember history, it has been said, are condemned to repeat it....
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