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'Singur resembles Tiananmen Square protests'

'What is happening today in West Bengalresembles closely to what happened in Tiananmen Square," feels Trinamool Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Dinesh Trivedi. Addressing...

Anti-China sentiment highest since Tiananmen Square: RSS-linked magazine

The anti-China sentiment prevailing now is at its highest in the world since the Tiananmen Square crackdown on this day in 1989, the Oragniser, a weekly magazine linked to the ruling Bharatiya...

24 years after tanks rolled down Tiananmen Square

Thousands of Chinese are on Tuesday observing the 24th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. We reproduce an updated version of a feature on...

Tiananmen Square: 30 Years Later

Thirty years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, coerced collective amnesia envelops the Chinese nation about that horrific event.Claude Arpi glances back at how the student uprising could have...

Tiananmen Square: When China's history changed FOREVER

Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of China’s infamous Tiananmen Square massacre, an event that defined a generation of activists and shocked the world. Rediff.com presents some of the...

The power of the Chinese economy

The head of the European monetary authority stepped off the plane at Beijing airport, and was transported by a high-speed train faster than France's TGV, to the centre of Beijing. There he...

No Twitter, Flickr in China

Less than two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, China's cyberpolice blocked the micro-blogging service Twitter. Internet experts note that a Chinese tweet can...

Moody's cuts China's credit score, a first in 3 decades

For the first time in almost three decades, Moody’s Investors Service has cut China’s credit score, from Aa3 to A1, following concerns over a slowdown in economic growth while debt has...

Rupee slumps 38 paise to end at over 6-month low

The rupee fell on Monday in a volatile session after an upward revision in US quarterly growth data raised concerns about earlier-than-expected interest rate hikes there, while caution also...

China revises GDP calculation method again

With adoption of the new method the size of China's economy last year was about $130 billion larger than previously estimated. China has revised the method of calculating its GDP for the second...

Torch cheered through Tiananmen Square

Euphoric crowds chanting "Go Olympics, Go Beijing" cheered the Olympic flame through Tiananmen Square on Wednesday at the end of its troubled global relay. - The Olympic torch: Peace and...

Even Spiderman Ran New York Marathon

Glimpses from the Marathons in New York and Beijing. More than 50,000 runners took part in the TCS 2022 New York City Marathon. The Beijing Marathon was stalled for two years due to the pandemic....

Olympic torch relay launched in Beijing

Chinese President Hu Jintao hands the Olympic torch to Olympic hurdler and gold medallist Liu Xiang during the welcome ceremony for the Olympic flame for the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay at...

China set to become sporting superpower

Perched in Tiananmen square in the centre of Beijing at the top of the steps leading to the Museum of China stands a giant rectangular digital clock.Less than a month after the conclusion of the...

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