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Three beautiful women have rocked the world of the British royal family in the past century and more. There are certainly parallels between Wallis Simpson, who married Edward VII, [...]

When farmers engaged in the ongoing agitation around Delhi and their supporters passionately recite Sahir Ludhianvi, one realises that the man who modestly called himself pal-[...]

When Nepal’s embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and some of his communist colleagues performed the unusual duty of praying at the historic Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, t[...]

Pakistan’s entertainment industry, going by media reports, is increasingly conscious that political relations with India are unlikely to improve anytime soon, lengthening any prosp[...]

Tuhin Kanti Ghosh, president of the Indian Newspaper Society (1987-88) and Chairman of UNI (1984-86), passed away at his south Calcutta home on Wednesday. He was 73. Well known in [...]

The way Pakistan deals with militancy-related cases, their being investigated and tried by its judiciary has striking similarities. There are huge delays, when concerned officials [...]

What happens when a nation’s parliament is dissolved despite the government enjoying huge majority, when the ruling party splits and the prime minister is expelled? And what surmis[...]

Speculation is rife in Pakistan that ‘selection’ – as the opposition parties have been alleging – of Imran Khan to rule after the 2018 elections was an attempt by the country’s mil[...]

An interesting Whatsapp message doing the rounds“ Americans recently found out that it’s much easier for them to change presidents in other countries than they can do in their own [...]