Cold War
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The day four hydrogen bombs dropped by US B-52 on Spain: How Palomares stared at nuclear doom
World | Aug 29, 2025, 05:44 PM ISTThree of the bombs fell near Palomares, while the fourth vanished into the Mediterranean Sea. Two bombs detonated their conventional explosives upon impact—scattering radioactive plutonium over 0.77 square miles of farmland.
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Why Switzerland keeps bunkers ready for its entire population: Know here
World | Jun 27, 2025, 07:26 PM ISTBunkers in Switzerland aren’t just concrete rooms - they’re part of a national mindset. From Cold War propaganda showing marmots ducking into burrows, to school drills and iodine stockpiles, the idea of survival is deeply normalised.
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Safer than the White House? Why Wood Norton Hall could withstand a nuclear attack
World | Jun 25, 2025, 12:24 PM ISTOnce a wartime stronghold of the BBC, the sprawling Victorian estate in Worcestershire is again making headlines, thanks to its Cold War-era nuclear bunker, reportedly capable of withstanding a full-scale atomic blast.
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US military misled public on UFOs for decades to hide secret defence projects: Report
World | Jun 09, 2025, 06:23 PM ISTAccording to the report, the Pentagon not only spread disinformation, including doctored images of flying saucers, but also misled eyewitnesses who had unknowingly witnessed classified military activities.
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North Korea ratifies biggest defence deal with Russia since end of Cold War in a game-changer step
World | Nov 12, 2024, 10:27 AM ISTRussian President Vladimir Putin has also signed the treaty into law, which stipulates that the two countries should "immediately provide military and other assistance using all available means" if either side is in a state of war.
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NATO to hold its biggest military exercise since Cold War in 2024 with more than 40,000 troops
World | Sep 12, 2023, 11:44 PM ISTThe Air Defender 23 exercise starting this coming week will see 10,000 participants and 250 aircraft from 25 nations respond to a simulated attack on a NATO member country.
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Putin is on a personal mission to rewrite Cold War history, making the risks in Ukraine far graver
World | Feb 25, 2022, 10:54 AM ISTRussia's sheer size – the largest combat force assembled in Europe since the second world war – suggests a maximalist approach: erasing the humiliation of the Soviet Union’s breakup 30 years ago with a massive, bloody and swift invasion of Ukraine on multiple fronts.
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Pakistan PM Imran Khan to visit Russia on Feb 23-24: Reports
World | Feb 21, 2022, 11:38 AM ISTRussian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that preparations for the visit of Prime Minister Khan were underway, the state-run TASS news agency reported on Sunday.
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'Keep talking with West': Russian Foreign Minister advises Putin amid Ukraine tension
World | Feb 14, 2022, 09:41 PM ISTSpeaking at a meeting with Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov argued that Moscow should hold more talks with the U.S. and its allies despite their refusal to consider the main Russian demands.
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China’s leader Xi Jinping warns against ‘Cold War’ in Indo-Pacific
World | Nov 11, 2021, 07:10 AM ISTXi Jinping is scheduled to participate in an online meeting with other Pacific Rim leaders including US President Joe Biden on Saturday.
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China accuses US of pushing bilateral ties to brink of 'new Cold War'
World | May 24, 2020, 10:07 PM ISTChina on Sunday accused the US of pushing the bilateral ties to the brink of a "new Cold War" by spreading "lies" about the coronavirus and said it was open to international efforts to identify the source of the virus that has killed over 300,000 people globally.
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Cold War nuclear tests changed rainfall thousands of kms away
Science | May 14, 2020, 11:13 PM ISTNuclear bomb tests during the Cold War led to increased rainfall thousands of kilometres from the detonation sites, new research has found.
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Parineeti Chopra and Shraddha Kapoor at cold war? Saina Nehwal biopic actress clears the air
Celebrities | Apr 11, 2019, 09:02 AM ISTParineeti Chopra has replaced Shraddha Kapoor in Saina Nehwal biopic, for which the latter had been training for months.
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Trump says relations with Russia worse than Cold War era, vows to continue air-strikes on Syria
World | Apr 11, 2018, 05:17 PM ISTTrump's remarks came after Russian warning suggesting that Moscow would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime.
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Is Ranbir Kapoor the reason behind cold war between Salman and Sanjay Dutt?
Bollywood | Jun 29, 2016, 07:28 PM ISTIs Ranbir Kapoor the reason behind cold war between Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt?
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Revealed: This woman is the reason behind Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt’s cold war
Bollywood | May 26, 2016, 10:47 PM ISTHere's the reason behind cold war between Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt.
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China, Taiwan presidents meet for 1st time ever, shake hands
World | Nov 07, 2015, 04:53 PM ISTSingapore: The leaders of Taiwan and China shook hands today at a historic meeting marking the first top-level contact between the formerly bitter Cold War foes since they split amid civil war 66 years ago.Chinese
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India needs to give up Cold War mindset: Chinese daily
World | Jan 19, 2015, 01:39 PM ISTBeijing: India needs to "give up its Cold War mindset" so that ties with China can become promising, said a Chinese daily that noted democracy has become a burden for India's development.India is "a proud
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NATO reports 400 intercepts of Russian aircraft in 2014
World | Nov 21, 2014, 08:36 AM ISTTallinn (Estonia): NATO said on Friday there have been around 400 intercepts of Russian military flights near its member countries this year, amid heightened tension between Moscow and the West over the Ukraine crisis."If you
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Finland Prime Minister warns of new 'Cold War'
World | Nov 12, 2014, 09:33 AM ISTHelsinki: Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb warned today that the conflict in the Ukraine was bringing the world to the "brink of a Cold War" but that trade sanctions were the only credible weapon against