History
Bangladesh High Commission in Lanka observed National Mourning Day by serving cancer patients
A leading Bangladeshi oncology pharma company "Beacon" will offer cancer drugs free for every second drug purchased by the Institute of Palliative Medicine.
“What’s happening is not Indianization of Kashmir but Kashmirization of India”: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
The Modi regime thinks: "The international climate is propitious. We can do what China is doing: Remake whole cultures, societies. We can take advantage of the fact that human rights is not even hypocrisy left in the international system."
Rise and fall of Old Delhi
Built from scratch by Moghul Emperor Shahjahan, Shahjahanabad, which later became old Delhi, was a centre of high culture till mid 19 th.Century, when it fell on bad times and witnessed mass killings in 1857 and 1947)
Old Delhi recalls its glorious past as Shahjahanabad
Built by Moghul Emperor Shahjahan, “Shahjahanabad” as Delhi was known then, represented the very essence of India’s composite Hindu-Muslim culture.
‘I’m an Afghan now’: The Soviet soldiers who never left the country they invaded
Thirty years have passed since the end of the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, but more than 200 Soviet troops stayed behind to become full-fledged Afghans.
Pak premier orders opening of 1000 year old Hindu temple closed since 1947
"We are thankful to the government for opening our temple," said a Hindu man while speaking to SAMAA TV. "We can come here whenever we want now."
Forcible conversion of Jaffna Tamils during Portuguese rule
The Jaffna Tamils reverted to Hinduism without a second thought when the Portuguese and the Dutch quit and were replaced by the liberal British. Only the coastal Paravas, who saw Catholicism as a liberation theology, stuck to Catholicism.
How LTTE killed TULF leader Amirthalingam
D.B.S.Jeyaraj writes in the minutest detail on the murder of one of the most respected Tamil leaders committed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Colombo on July 13, 1989, exactly thirty years ago
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