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  The day four hydrogen bombs dropped by US B-52 on Spain: How Palomares stared at nuclear doom

  World | August 29, 2025 17:44 IST

  Three 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 | June 27, 2025 19:26 IST

  Bunkers 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 | June 25, 2025 12:24 IST

  Once 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 | June 09, 2025 18:23 IST

  According 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 | November 12, 2024 10:27 IST

  Russian 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 | September 12, 2023 23:44 IST

  The 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 | February 25, 2022 10:54 IST

  Russia'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 | February 21, 2022 11:38 IST

  Russian 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 | February 14, 2022 21:41 IST

  Speaking 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 | November 11, 2021 7:10 IST

  Xi 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 22:07 IST

  China 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 23:13 IST

  Nuclear 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 | April 11, 2019 9:02 IST

  Parineeti 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 | April 11, 2018 17:17 IST

  Trump'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 | June 29, 2016 19:28 IST

  Is 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 22:47 IST

  Here'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 | November 07, 2015 16:53 IST

  Singapore: 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 | January 19, 2015 13:39 IST

  Beijing: 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 | November 21, 2014 8:36 IST

  Tallinn (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 | November 12, 2014 9:33 IST

  Helsinki: 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