Jawaharlal Nehru

The typewriter lives on in India

2011-09-01 00:00:00

It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance. Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...

Tibet-in-exile officials suspect Chinese plot against Dalai Lama

2012-05-20 16:40:07

Is the Indian city of Chandigarh, designed by Le Corbusier, being 'stripped for parts'?

2011-03-10 16:33:03

Obama, enroute to Denmark, hails Mahatma Gandhi

2009-10-02 04:34:28

How India beat the odds

2007-08-12 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ At midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, a new, independent India was born on a subcontinent racked with violence, ripped apart by a bloody partition. It came into being as flames blazed across the land, as corpse-...

Curious bedfellows

2007-12-14 16:13:58

"LONG years ago, we made a trust with destiny," declared Jawaharlal Nehru, the founding father of modern India, on the occasion of the formal surrender of power by the British imperial authorities. "And now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge....

Speed touring India's Taj Mahal & Golden Triangle

2007-04-29 00:00:00

The sane traveler makes a simple calculation when planning a getaway: The longer it takes to get there, the longer the stay required to make it worthwhile. By that definition, my friends and I are not sane travelers. � We did Peru's Machu Picchu over a...

Delhi, on the Nigel express

2004-11-07 00:00:00

"Welcome to deepest, darkest Delhi, where no white man doth tread," Nigel Hankin said in mock cadences. His snowy eyebrows arched as his left foot perched on a dirty stair. I peered up the ancient passageway. It was indeed a path straight to darkness, a...

Merkel visita hoy la India para afianzar lazos económicos

2011-05-30 00:00:00

Merkel estrecha lazos en la India tras breve rifirrafe aéreo con Irán

2011-05-31 00:00:00

Hallan gen que aumenta la resistencia bacteriana en el agua de Nueva Delhi

2011-04-07 00:00:00

India "condena" un estudio sobre el hallazgo de bacterias en el agua de Delhi

2011-04-07 00:00:00

were beaten in May 1945, America celebrated with Norman's ode, On a Note of Triumph, and the exalted slang of its opening lines: So they've given up! They're finally done in, and the rat is dead in an alley back of the Wilhelmstrasse. Take a bow, G.I. Take a bow, little guy.

2011-12-30 17:22:39

wave the Indian national flag during celebrations for Children's Day at a school in Amritsar, India's northwestern state of Punjab. The celebration of Children's Day falls on November 14, coinciding with the birthdayof India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

2011-11-14 00:00:00

Performers participate in the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony as the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium is illuminated by lasers in New Delhi. The closing ceremony brought down the curtain on 12 days of sporting action at the $6 billion games for 71 mostly former British colonies.

2010-10-14 00:00:00