Power

On January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower’s political farewell to the American people, televised from the Oval Office, made a sharp point of departure in …

On 13 July 2025, Israeli fighter jets launched a Pearl Harbour-style blitzkrieg on Iranian military and nuclear sites. Israel’s unprovoked aggression left the global …

Holocaust trains crammed with Jews arrived daily at the concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where six crematoriums worked day and night to …

Before his untimely death due to coronavirus, Dr Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, the first whistleblower of the Covid-19 pandemic, was severely …

In March 1979, a revolt erupted in the desert town of Herat, Afghanistan, near the Iranian border. Rebels in the Afghan military mercilessly massacred Russian …

On 6 July 2007, Pakistani police discovered an anti-aircraft gun ominously positioned along the secret flight path of then-President General Pervez …

Voltaire, the renowned French polymath and champion of the Enlightenment, made a flippant yet incisive remark on the Royal Prussian Army: “Where some states have …

In India, movies transcend entertainment and cathartic sensibilities. It often regresses into the distorted realms of individual and mass sensitivities, blurring the lines …

In the annals of human history, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in 1863 assumed a pivotal role in the spread of democracies across the world…

Metaphors have been an intrinsic part of human cognition and expression since the birth of civilisations and the formation of languages in all cultures. While metaphors …