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Police said the toilet was taken early Saturday by thieves who used at least two vehicles. (Photo: AFP)

Solid gold toilet, once offered to Donald Trump, stolen from London...

The toilet, valued at roughly 1 million pounds (USD 1.25 million), was the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

15 Sept 2019 4:28 PM IST

Truth: a brief history of bullshit, by Tom Phillips Headline, Rs 599.

In the age of post-truths, what colour is your favourite lie?

The thing is, this all gets messy remarkably quickly, because of the sheer variety of ways there are of being wrong.

5 Jan 2020 2:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Modi, Trump take ties to a more robust level

The visuals were beamed live across India, the United States and at least half the world.

28 Feb 2020 6:25 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP)

Britain cannot photoshop' its cultural landscape: Johnson

PM Johnson defends Churchill, criticises 'distortion of our history'

15 Jun 2020 9:13 AM IST

Workers prepare to take down a statue of slave owner Robert Milligan at West India Quay, east London. (AP)

Authorities remove slave trader statue in London

Statues glorifying slave traders and colonialists have come into sharp focus in recent days inspired by the Black Lives...

10 Jun 2020 12:38 PM IST

Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England. (AP)

UK protesters take down slave trader's statue, dump it in harbour

Protesters also defaced statue of former British PM Winston Churchill, crossing out his last name and painting 'was a...

8 Jun 2020 9:35 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why democracy often turns ugly: Prejudice & hate as...

The byelection for a Member of Parliament in the Yorkshire constituency of Batley was a paradigm of this ugliness

3 July 2021 12:20 AM IST

Those parties for whom Indians voted but are not part of government are treated with disdain, as if their voters are irrelevant. Representational Image. (AP)

Aakar Patel | What India will we leave for future generations? Some...

The people are useful for the State as they give it legitimacy, but they are also seen as a nuisance that gets in the...

17 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

Meghan Markle (Photo: Instagram)

Farrukh Dhondy | When fantasy pretends to be history Does truth...

Gentle reader, there has always been a conflict between truth and blind nationalist interpretation of events

26 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

The warship has been built at a cost of around Rs 23,000 crore and its construction propelled India into a select group of countries having capabilities to build state-of-the-art aircraft carriers. (Indian Navy photo)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Hike Indian Navy funding to befit a rising sea...

A strong, effective Navy can't be built in a day, nor does it forgive a lackadaisical approach to maintenance or...

3 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a flexible' Liz Truss usher in Global...

Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives' fourth Prime Minister since...

7 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Fighting Retreat: Winston Churchill and India By Walter Reid. (Image: DC)

Book Review | Churchill's policy towards India was dishonest and...

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion

7 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST