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When US dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima 75 years ago
On this day 75 years ago, the US had dropped the first of its two atomic bombs on Japanese cities — the first, in Hiroshima, killed more than 70,000 people instantly. A second bomb, which was dropped three days later over Nagasaki, killed 40,000 more. The nuclear warfare put paid to the World War II and a devastating chapter in world history. Watch video to know more
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US unemployment rate in May could hit highest level since World War II
Consumer confidence, manufacturing and services industries are also stabilising, though at low levels, hopeful signs that the worst was over
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The inevitability of classical economics
What we came to regard as 'the normal' was anything but normal because the state, like nature, wasn't in the business of compassion and equity
India has to play its cards well in post-coronavirus world
A new war of invisible type is now going on against mankind. Each country will have to select its side. But more importantly, develop its one offense and defensive frameworks
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Covid-19 worst crisis since WWII, no parallels in recent past, says UN head
Guterres called for a much stronger and more effective global response to the coronavirus pandemic and to the social and economic devastation that COVID-19 is causing
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Need for non-economic globalisation: Lessons from the Coronavirus pandemic
While the post World War II global order has successfully promoted trade openness and free markets, it has failed on non-economic metrics such as climate change and health
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The banker who hunted Nazis
The book underlines a reality we are discovering today: that even in advanced democracies fascism retains a perilous allure
Russian women in World War II
Roughly a million Soviet women fought in World War II
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Nurse kissed in iconic World War II photo dies
Black and white photograph of Friedman, dressed in a white uniform, being embraced and kissed by a sailor to celebrate the end of the war became an enduring image
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India's World War II
An accomplished history juxtaposes the far-flung campaigns India fought against the independence struggle
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