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An exemplary officer

Tirunelli Narayanaiyer Seshan established not only the credibility of the counting but also of the entire electoral...

13 Nov 2019 12:29 AM IST

DMK chief M Karunanidhi with his son MK Stalin on his 63rd birthday in Chennai on March 1, 2015. (Photo: PTI)

'I told my name, people stared': DMK chief Stalin's name raised...

MK Stalin's father M Karunanidhi deliberately named his son after the Russian communist leader Joseph Stalin.

14 Sept 2019 8:19 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | On truth' in the Age of Internet: How Wikipedia is...

There lies one of the instant hazards of Internet biography -- one can't tell lies about one's age any more.

11 Feb 2023 12:54 AM IST

A child holds a portrait of Fidel Castro as mourners arrive to visit the memorial site for the late leader at the Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba. (Photo: AP)

Fidel was no Stalin, more like Ho

Cubans seemed to have silently rebutted the lopsided American view by sticking to Castro the Cuban leader rather than...

30 Nov 2016 2:57 AM IST

The idea came from 33-year-old historian, Mikhail Melnichenko, after he wrote a book about Soviet political jokes using diaries as a source. (Photo: AFP)

Russian historians put Stalin-era diaries online through Prozhito

As memories of the Stalin era fade, a project run by young Russian historian is putting Yakovlev journal and more like...

29 March 2017 12:07 PM IST

Interior of the Skrilje bunker located in a forest 90 metres bellow the ground on a sealed-off military base near town of Kocevje, Slovenia. (Photo: AFP)

Slovenia hideouts spill Cold War secrets

Until recently, the existence of the 800-square-metre labyrinth had still been a secret, albeit not a very good one.

14 Jun 2017 2:29 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Putin may win again: Campaign begins for Russia's presidential...

Putin's top critic Alexei Navalny, 41, has been barred from putting his name on the ballot because of a criminal...

18 Dec 2017 8:31 PM IST