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Category: History

The ‘Developed’ Dilemma

There has been a lot of concern about the slowdown in economic growth and the rise in inflation across the globe. Oil prices had risen in the 1970s, so did […]

The Balkan Friends Of India

When Josip Broz Tito (popularly known as Marshal Tito), the President of erstwhile Yugoslavia, visited India in 1955, the global geopolitical landscape was different. After the end of the Second […]

Blue & White Explained

The story heads back to the 5th Century Byzantine Empire (formerly the Roman Empire), when Blue was the colour of nobility… it was expensive to manufacture, and owing blue clothes […]

Expressing Deep Regret, And…

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte recently offered a formal apology on behalf of his country for the Netherlands’ historical role in the slave trade. Delivering a speech in The Hague […]

Oldest DNA Reveals Amazing Lost World

Ice sheets cover Greenland, the world’s largest non-continental island, throughout the year. However, the environment was not like this in the past. The Danish researchers recently claimed that the temperature […]

An Element(ary) Discovery

Scientists from India, Australia and the US have made a joint discovery that could be very useful in the search for helium; a colourless, odourless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, and monatomic […]

Civilisation As Centre Of Controversy

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008), an American Political Scientist who had spent more than half a century at Harvard University, triggered a sensation in global […]

Population, Life-Expectancy & Disparities

The United Nations (UN) recently confirmed that the World Population reached eight billion on November 15, 2022. In a report, the UN claimed that the Global Population would touch 9.7 […]

A Hallmark Of Funerary Preparations

Archaeologists have recently been excavating a site near the Quesna Quarries Cemetery in the Delta, located in the Kfour al-Raml area in Egypt’s Monufiya Governorate. During the excavations, they have […]