‘Pakistani sex gang had Punjabi values’
June 25th, 2012 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 25 (IANS) A British historian has been termed a "racist" and "bigot" after he said a Pakistani sex gang that preyed on young white schoolgirls in Britain had ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Power is as addictive as cocaine, says expert
April 29th, 2012 - 11:25 am ICT by IANS
London, April 29 (IANS) More than a hundred years after noted British historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", a scientist ... Read more...
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Never thought Mao’s biography would be an expose: Writer
November 24th, 2011 - 12:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Her book ripped the veil off Mao Zedong's regime and was described as a "bombshell of a devastating work" by the British media. But the ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
60-inch wide Polish house could be world’s narrowest
July 5th, 2011 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 5 (IANS) Just 60 inches wide, a four-storey house with a bedroom, lounge, bathroom and kitchen -- but no staircase -- is being claimed to be the world's ... Read more...
Posted in Life Style |
Italian women to come together for ‘knicker-throwing’ Berlusconi protest
February 2nd, 2011 - 12:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 2 (ANI): As if his sexcapades aren't enough to embarrass him, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is about to face more - a group of women plan to throw pairs ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Shepherd’s Monument ‘code’ is 19th century graffiti claims Brit historian
February 1st, 2011 - 3:22 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 1 (ANI): The eight-letter inscription on the 18th century Shepherd's Monument in UK has left many baffled, but a British historian has come forward to say that it is nothing ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Unearthed cities in Southern Siberia could rewrite Aryan history
October 4th, 2010 - 6:14 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Oct 4 (ANI): A new study has suggested that recently unearthed cities in Southern Siberia could rewrite Aryan history-as they are believed to be the original home of the Aryans.Twenty of ... Read more...
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Vladimir Lenin ‘died from syphilis, not stroke’
October 23rd, 2009 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 23 (ANI): Syphilis killed Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and not a stroke, believes a British historian.To find the evidence, Helen Rappaport delved deep into books, papers and obscure journals.Rappaport thinks ... Read more...
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510-year-old church in Newfoundland may be New World’s oldest Christian site
September 7th, 2009 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
Ottawa, September 7 (ANI): In a new project, a team of archeologists is planning to search for the remains of a 510-year-old church on the western shore of Conception Bay, Newfoundland, which ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New book says wrong clothing, not winter led to Hitler’s 1941 defeat in Russia
July 26th, 2009 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 26 (ANI): British historian Andrew Roberts has claimed in a new book -- The Storm of War -- that wrong clothing and not ghastly wintry conditions led to Germany's defeat ... Read more...
Posted in World |
The British Empire was terrified of Punjab’s last Maharani
May 25th, 2009 - 3:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 25 (ANI): It has now been revealed that at the height of its power in the middle of the nineteenth century, the British Empire was wary and quite terrified of ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Obama’s background makes him pro-Indian: Historian Simon Schama (Interview)
January 29th, 2009 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) New US President Barack Obama's background makes him pro-Indian and "he is going to do a lot for India before this spring is out", says noted historian ... Read more...
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Hitler appointed me as his biographer, says Brit historian David Irving
January 16th, 2009 - 3:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan.16 (ANI): A British historian, who was jailed for denying the existence of the Holocaust, has now claimed that he was chosen by Adolf Hitler to be his biographer. Historian ... Read more...
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Russian authorities accused of covering Stalins dastardly deeds
December 8th, 2008 - 2:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 8 (ANI): A British historian has accused the Russian authorities of attempting to hide from the world the dastardly deeds that were done in Soviet Russia under Stalin.According to ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
175 years after death, Rammohun Roy’s tomb restored in Britain (Repeating from all needing)
September 29th, 2008 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 29 (IANS) After decades of neglect, the newly restored tomb of Indian visionary thinker and social reformer Raja Rammohun Roy was unveiled Sunday in his resting place in Bristol.India's High ... Read more...
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175 years after death, Rammohun Roy’s tomb restored in Britain
September 28th, 2008 - 6:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 28 (IANS) After decades of neglect, the newly restored tomb of visionary thinker Raja Rammohun Roy was unveiled Sunday in his resting place in Britain.India's High Commissioner Shiv Shankar Mukherjee ... Read more...
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The Swinging Sixties: From rock and pop to mass protest
April 3rd, 2008 - 9:26 am ICT by admin
By Anna Tomforde
London, April 3 (DPA) Britain may not have had a Rudi Dutschke or Daniel Cohn- Bendit, but the 1968 student riots have nonetheless left an indelible mark on the country's ... Read more...
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