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AFT grants 'war injury pension' to WWII jawan who lost his leg due to mine
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) [India], November 12 (ANI): The Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has ordered the Ministry of Defence and Indian Army to give additional benefits of 'war injury pension' to World War II jawan, who lost a leg in a mine blast.
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China seeks to become world's next superpower, using espionage to dethrone
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 9 (ANI): China seeks to become the world's next superpower, dethroning the United States and tearing apart the rules-based international system that American and its allies have built since the end of World War 2, according to a report published in The National Int
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Last surviving soldier who liberated Auschwitz in WWII, dies at 98
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], June 7 (ANI): David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who helped liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau, has died at the age of 98, according to a statement by the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.
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'The Good Maharaja' slated for December 17, 2022 release
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 29 (ANI/PNN): Rising star Dhruv Verma, famous as 'Indian James Bond' worldwide for his intense action sequences in 'No Means No', has been signed for a whopping Rs 12 crore for a lead role in 'The Good Maharaja', a World War 2 Epic, in his second outing, a
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Japan, China and S Korea summit under a cloud over court order on 'forced
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], October 13 (ANI): The trilateral summit between Japan, China, and South Korea is under a cloud over South Korean court order on 'forced labour during World War Two'.
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Pierce Brosnan to star in 'The Last Rifleman'
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 1 (ANI): Actor Pierce Brosnan is all set to star in Terry Loane's next directorial project 'The Last Rifleman'.
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World War-II era unexploded bomb, ammunition discovered in Manipur
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Moreh (Manipur) [India], July 17 (ANI): An unexploded bomb, a stash of ammunition, including live cartridges, believed to be of the World War-II era were discovered by a person while levelling a plot of land here on Thursday.
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Before Tandoori Chicken: The restaurants of New Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): Those were the days when the twin cities of Delhi and New Delhi were small with a population of around 350,000. New Delhi had just been built and was beginning to be inhabited, with shops and few restaurants moving in. World War 2 broke out in 1939. That ga
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Urmila Matondkar compares CAA with Rowlatt Act, gets WW II years wrong
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 31 (ANI): Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar on Thursday compared the Citizenship Amendment Act with the British era Rowlatt Act 1919, but got the year wrong when the World War II ended.
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Japan PM Abe likely to visit Imphal in December
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Nov 29 (ANI): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to visit India in mid-December to hold a summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the defence deal or the bilateral acquisition and cross-servicing agreement (ACSA).
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German authorities detonate World War II bomb found in Frankfurt river
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Frankfurt [Germany], Apr 15 (ANI): Around 600 people were evacuated from their homes, after a WWII bomb found by firefighters taking part in a diving exercise in a river in Frankfurt, Germany, was safely detonated on Sunday.
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IAF adds Dakota DC-3 aircraft to its historic collection
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India] May 4 (ANI): To add to its collection of historic aircraft; Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday welcomed a refurbished World War-II Dakota DC-3 VP 905 aircraft in at Hindon Air Force station.
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