History in Minutes: When Nehru's Kerchief Became Sudan's Flag

On Jawaharlal Nehru's 61st death anniversary, Utkarsh Mishra recalls how India's first prime minister cultivated a unique role for the newly independent country on the world stage. IMAGE: Prime......

CPM's biggest U-turn: Modi govt not fascist

Deviating from its usual practice, the Communist Party of India-Marxist has issued a note to its state units on the draft political resolution for the upcoming party congress.  IMAGE: CPI-M......

Trump on retweeting Mussolini: 'It's a very good quote'

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an airport rally in Millington, Tennessee. Photograph: Karen Pulfer Focht/Reuters Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump......

Benito Mussolini was 'MI5's agent in Italy'

Italy's wartime dictator Benito Mussolini, credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism, was actually British spy agency MI5's 'secret agent,' de-classified documents have......

'What would I play after Devdas? Hitler?'

The Khan with the biggest clout at the box office has a hard act to follow. Devdas was not just the biggest success of 2002, it also placed a huge responsibility onShah Rukh Khan's shoulders: what......

Rubaru Roshni: Starts tough, ends soft

Though it is a little too neat and a little too light, Rubaru Roshni is important because it is telling us stories of people who have experienced an 'Inner Migration' in their lives, notes Sreehari......

The Last Tango with Bernardo Bertolucci

Aseem Chhabra salutes the Italian Master and his cinema. IMAGE: Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. It was the summer of 1974. I had just finished high school and my father......

Mussolini's great-grandson signs three-year deal with Serie A club Lazio

The defender is currently in his final year at the St George’s British International School in Rome, which is close to Lazio’s training ground near Formello.   IMAGE: Romano......

Will Casillas emulate Combi and Zoff?

Not since Gianpiero Combi received the Jules Rimet trophy from none other than Mussolini in 1934, and the 40-year-old Dino Zoff hoisted the World Cup in 1982, has a goalkeeper had the pleasure of......

Extras: PSG extend Ligue 1 lead; Dortmund rally

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Angel Di Maria scores Paris St Germain's second goal in Friday's Ligue 1 match against Lille, at Parc des Princes,......