According to media reports, the US has about 2,800 military dogs, the largest canine force in the world.
In a rare gesture, touching tributes were paid to 5,782 Indian soldiers who laid down their lives during the World War II, fighting for Italy against fascist forces.
On October 15, 2009, Irina Bokova of Bulgaria was elected as the tenth director-general of UNESCO.During her recent visit to India, Bokova spoke to Claude Arpi about her vision and aspirations for UNESCO in a changing world.
It was 40 years ago on December 16 that the world saw the biggest surrender of an army after World War II. Journalist Prem Prakash recounts what happened on that momentous day.
Two US military officers are on a familiarisation trip to Arunachal Pradesh before a joint Indo-US search next month for wreckage of hundreds of US fighter planes missing in action during World War II in China-Burma-India theatre and their pilots' remains.
Looking back at the legendary bike on its 67th birthday.
As Labor and the opposition Liberal-National party coalition were projected to win 73 seats each in the 150-seat parliament, the three independents, Rob Oakeshott, Tony Windsor and Bob Katter have virtually become kingmakers.
The Great Depression, that began almost 10 years before World War II broke out, is said to be the worst-ever financial crisis that the United States and many other nations across the world ever witness to.
'I get enormous pleasure from seeing the uplift of an underprivileged or poor person.' 'I feel elated when I walk on the street and see someone who pushes a handcart talking on a cell phone.' A revealing glimpse from Peter Casey's The Story of Tata: 1968 to 2021.
She had faced criticism over the existence of UK Home Office deportation targets and her knowledge of them.
However, official Indian sources said America expressed its desire to resume the mission for recovery of the remains of the US military personnel in Northeastern areas but remained silent on whether an agreement had been reached on the issue.
During the World War II, when United States General Joseph Stilwell was supervising the Herculean human efforts to build Stilwell Road through a treacherous and thickly forested mountainous terrain, he was not thinking about economics.
Japan's economy, the world's second largest, is expected to shrink 3.3 per cent in 2009, its worst contraction since World War II, the government said on Monday as it presented a record supplementary budget of $155 billion to finance a new stimulus package.
Here's a look at 10 truly great English language films about football some of them even better than the real thing.
'Are we to believe that coordinated moves by the Canadian and US authorities are no longer taking place?', asks Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The United Nations has projected a growth of 7.9 per cent for India in the current fiscal as it hailed the country along with China for leading developing nations to recovery from the worst economic downturn since World War II.
Scindia claimed Tharoor is "lost in his esoteric world of thesaurus", and for him "data mining of selective press articles from the internet qualifies as "research".
With its debt running into an estimated $22 billion, JAL's management formally decide to begin bankruptcy proceedings, making the company the biggest failure outside the financial sector since World War II, Kyodo news agency reported.
On the night of July 5, the Tigers launched their first kamikaze operation. Miller took the wheels of the explosive-packed truck, smiled at everyone as he turned the ignition key and drove it slowly towards the Sri Lankan military camp. A few moments later all of Jaffna heard a thunderous explosion that brought the complex crashing down in clouds of dust. Miller had given birth to a deadly tactic that Prabhakaran would employ time and again with devastating consequences to Sri Lanka -- and India. A fascinating excerpt from M R Narayan Swamy's must read new book, The Rout Of Prabhakaran.
But the Tata Group is an established and growing brand in Australia, affirm top local managers.
The coup attempt has weakened Putin's position and in desperation he may well sanction the use of nukes, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
It's time India re-visited its Western alliances for the attitude and approach that the West reserves for the nation when it comes to security cooperation of the kind that they might not have visualised outside of China, India's bug-bear, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Sixty-five years on, rediff.com reflects on the day 'Fat Man' unleashed havoc on Nagasaki.
My fear is that young Indians with their fuzzy outlook on nationalism can be victims. Most don't know (or care) what they sign up for.
Struggling to eke out a living, 20 World War II veterans are spending the evening of their life in a 'Sainik Ashram' in Kochi as they have not been given pension by the Central government.
The memorial hall exhibits pictures of the dead pilots and letters written to their parents before leaving for suicide attacks on American warships.
United States President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
Cadel Evans became the first Australian to win the Tour de France after Briton Mark Cavendish took Sunday's final stage on the Champs Elysees for the third year in a row.
The Arabs call it Obwah Lasica, while the rest of the world terms it as a sticky bomb. This is a name that is doing the rounds ever since an attack took place in Delhi on Monday, in which an Israeli Diplomat and three others were injured.
The Tories and Liberal Democrats worked overtime to reach consensus on thorny issues blocking the formation of the first coalition government in Britain since World War II, with the hard bargain over make or break issues running into the third day.
Take a look at designer Harangad Singh's line, presented on the final day of the LFW.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised for the Canadian Parliament's recognition of a man who fought for a Nazi unit during World War II, an incident that drew global condemnation and was termed by the Opposition as the 'biggest single diplomatic embarrassment' in the country's history.
Despite the historic victory of Barack Obama in the Presidential elections and 'the change' he has promised, Unites State's foreign policy would continue to be guided by its national interest as it has been since World War II, feels former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra.Chairing a discussion on 'Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Impact on Asian Security Framework' at Observer Research Foundation, Mishra said the Bush administration had been working on two key US strategies.
The DVD and Blu-ray versions of the film, featuring an excellent cast led by Brad Pitt, has started climbing to the top of the sales and rental charts.
Wiesenthal spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and remembering the Jewish experience as a lesson for humanity.
The President visited an ailing Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.
'There is no accountability in this country at all. You can get away with anything. When that happens... the younger generation, who does it learn from?' asks General M L Thapan.
Gandhi's remarks at a press conference during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Nagaland's Chiephobozoucame days after the Congress top brass declined the invitation to the event at the Ram temple in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
The Brad Pitt starrer is doing very well overseas.
The National Bureau of Economic Research has declared the recession that started in December 2007 ended in June 2009.
