North Korean television viewers had a treat just after New Year’s Day. The state broadcaster aired “72 Hours”, a new film, according to NK News, a North Korean-focused news site. The movie tells the story of the first three days of the Korean war and how the conflict was started by the evil South. (In
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The stolid-looking, grey-bearded gentleman has a piercing gaze, one that seems to follow us as we file past his photograph hung on the thick walls of the Whitefield Club. “That is a picture of Mr. White,” says Deepa Peck, a long-time resident of Whitefield who is leading us on a heritage walk around the neighbourhood.
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For representative purposes. | Photo Credit: iStockphoto The story so far: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will be using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to register spam preferences from customers, TRAI chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti said. Spam rules will be tightened to make commercial messages traceable, the TRAI has indicated. What is TRAI’s role
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Turncoat politicians are no longer a liability. They are unalloyed assets. That the political scene in the Delhi assembly elections, allows for such more broad manoeuvres, is a barometer of extreme electoral flexibility. Apparently, it suits everyone. Take West Delhi’s Patel Nagar, one of the best-connected constituencies in the national capital. Veteran Congress politician and
No sooner had it unleashed the first of its drones at Israel on November 8th than the Iraqi militia published an image of missiles streaking through the sky. Israel said its aerial defences had thwarted the attack by al-Nujaba (“the Nobles”). “Big surprises in the coming hours,” the group promised—in Hebrew as well as Arabic:
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The story so far: In a bid to deepen ties in Asia and Africa, the heads of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are scheduled to meet in Cape Town, South Africa on August 22-24 this year. The bloc, which is seen as a counter to the G7, is also mulling
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In 2009, when our team first found a human skull and jaw bone in Tam Pà Ling Cave in northern Laos, some were sceptical of its origin and true age. When we published a timeline in 2012 for the arrival of modern humans in mainland Asia around 46,000 years ago based on the Tam Pà
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Full transcript of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s interview to The Hindu You were in New Delhi recently for the high-level talks on fisheries. The Sri Lankan side has termed the outcome positive and successful. Has India agreed to ban bottom trawling? The discussion we had in New Delhi last weekend with the Minister
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A photograph of U.S. Presidential-elect Donald Trump is displayed by activists belonging to ‘Hindu Sena’ in New Delhi on Wednesday. Pakistanis fear the business magnate will forge closer ties with their arch-rival India and not be so favourably poised towards their country. Donald Trump’s surprise election as the 45th United States President has Pakistanis wary
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sacked Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid for the “lapse” on his part to stop a “false” report on a rift between the government and the powerful army from being published in national interest, a senior minister said on Sunday. Addressing a press conference a day after Mr. Rashid was fired by
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