Britain’s Gen Next to study India’s freedom struggle
In an ironic twist, Britain, which colonised India for centuries, is now going to expose its school children to the history of India’s freedom struggle. If the new national curriculum …
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Home Away from Home: It’s Miami, not Mumbai!
It’s raining houses in the US for Indians, quite literally. The US real estate market has been flooded by Indian investments ever since the bursting of the housing bubble in …
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India, Sri Lanka, Maldives firm up maritime security roadmap
Against the backdrop of the increasing strategic salience of the Indian Ocean and China’s rapidly expanding footprints in the region, India has signed a trilateral maritime agreement with Sri Lanka …
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First terror strike to hit Buddhist site: What’s the message?
The holy Bodhi tree, under which Lord Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment centuries ago, has emerged unscathed, but a string of horrendous blasts targeting the famed Mahabodhi temple …
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India, China focus on building military trust, border stability
Amid festering strategic distrust between Asia’s rising powers, the defence ministers of India and China are set for wide-ranging talks in Beijing that aim at buttressing trust and promoting enhanced …
Read MoreHome Truths: Are you employable? Get Real Education!
It’s admission season in colleges in India — a season of soaring hopes and great expectations! Students and their families believe that admission in a good college and a sufficiently …
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Surviving Apocalypse: Tourism slides downhill in Uttarakhand
The recent calamity in Uttarakhand, triggered by apocalyptic floods in India’s northern hilly state, is a disaster with ripples reaching far and wide, hitting hard the tourism industry, the lynchpin …
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A ticket to paradise: Train to Kashmir
When writer Khushwant Singh wrote his famous novel Train to Pakistan, he may not have thought of what is nestled close – the jewel in India’s crown, Kashmir. The good …
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India, China hold boundary talks, seek to ‘break fresh ground’
More than two months after the Chinese troops’ incursion into Ladakh stressed India-China ties, the two Asian powers have renewed their efforts to spur a lasting solution to the decade-old …
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India-US dialogue: ‘Kerry’s visit helped clear a lot of misunderstandings’
Stasis, stagnation, drifting, cooling off, losing momentum — these were some of the stock words and phrases deployed by pundits on the play of the India-US relations ahead of US …
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