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It's Taken 500 Years For This To Happen!

500 years after Britain's then King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic church over its refusal to sanction his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, 'his successor, King Charles III, prayed......

Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding venue

For a while now we’ve known Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding will take place on Saturday, May 19. IMAGE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markel will get married on May......

Portraits, gun salutes as Britain's Queen Elizabeth turns 90

Britain on Thursday celebrated the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II with gun salutes and fireworks and Prime Minister David Cameron paying tributes to the UK’s oldest and......

Holy war in the nuclear age: A recipe for extinction

The ahl-al-kitab, or 'People of the Book' as they are know westward, have been locked in a conflict primed for a terrible end for over a thousand years. With nukes in the mix, these centuries old......

Modi, Erdogan and the dismantling of legacy

Ataturk and Nehru, two liberal secular modernisers, are in peril of being disowned by their successors, says Sunanda K-Datta Ray. Narendra Modi cannot but sympathise with the dilemma Turkey's......

India set to be world's publishing hub

Nearly five centuries after King Henry VIII gave it the charter to go and sell books in his empire, the Cambridge University Press has set up shop in India.India was not part of King Henry's empire......

A 2-bedroom flat in Hindujas' The OWO costs 5.8 mn!

The OWO is spread over 580,000 sq. ft and rises to seven floors. Its 1,100 rooms are now being converted into 85 residences and a hotel. IMAGE: A 250-year lease of the vast property was acquired......

Is this why govt needs money from RBI?

Money permits patronage.Money means power. No wonder details of the crores locked up in NPAs and never repaid loans are top secret, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray. Photograph: PTI Photo It could well be......

Brexit: An unlikely divorce?

The likelihood of the divorce going through appears slim and may result in ‘reconciliation during legal separation’, notes Ashok K Lahiri One of the earliest and well-known divorce......

Scarlett Johansson to get a lesson in history

Say the name Anne Boleyn, and no one even vaguely familiar with British history can claim ignorance. The second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, Boleyn was beheaded on charges of......

Neecha Nagar, The King's Speech, Burn Notice: What's the Link?

An occasional series featuring unusual movie connections. Cannes has just ended, and Ken Loach has just won his second Palme d'Or for -- joining Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Hanke on a very......

Review: Inside Llewyn Davis is another Coen triumph

Inside Llewyn Davis is a fantastic film, feels Raja Sen.1961. The sixties but not quite The Sixties just yet. America had indeed picked up a revolutionary new guitar but was only beginning to learn......

Henry VIII was a footballer, say historians

He was famous for drinking, hunting, jousting and having six wives. But historians now think King Henry VIII may have had a secret passion -- football.Researchers have found the much-married king......