Yet its isolation is fairly recent. Until 1905 it formed the eastern part of British India’s Bengal, an enormous province of 78 million people, a figure that was then slightly larger than the ...

Nilantha Ilangamuwa When the Jaffar Express was hijacked by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) this week, my mind immediately ...

Not entirely by coincidence, the seeds of India’s organised fascist movement also sprouted the same year with the founding of the Hindu revanchist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Its political branch, ...

HELLO! brings you the latest news, photos and exclusives from the British Royal Family as they happen. The British royals are well-known for their charity work and public support of numerous ...

Baloch separatists have repeatedly attacked the Jaffar Express in the last few years. It is commonly used by security ...

ThePrint Explorer looks at how the real message separatists have sent with the attack is that they can weaken Pakistan’s hold ...

In the 2024 elections, three communist parties won two seats each, none in West Bengal, with a joint national vote share of ...

A Bengaluru family was denied boarding on a flight to the US at KIA due to a payment issue. The consumer court ordered British Airways and travel agency CheapOair to pay Rs 1.2 lakh in compensation ...

Excerpts from P Dayaratne’s autobiography by KKS PERERA While translating the Sinhala autobiography of P. Dayaratne, the former District and Cabinet Minister who represented Ampara (Digamadulla) in ...

Jaffar Express, the train was travelling from Quetta, the provincial capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan ... originally constructed during British colonial rule.

Gandhi began his Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram. With this act, the Civil Disobedience Movement was launched. In today's ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet his Canadian counterpart at a G7 gathering Thursday, but discussion of ...