An early 20th century electric shock machine, a rare Oriental opium pipe and gold sovereign coins worth in total an estimated ...

The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty of Nanking . The treaty opened five Chinese ports to British traders, ...

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The arch dam, as the curved type is known, is effectively an arched bridge turned on its side, with the centre of the arch ...

The two-day farmers’ fest began at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-CIMAP on Thursday.

Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's Swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and ...

District police arrested 24 criminals during a crackdown across the district,here on Friday. According to a spokesman,police ...

Myanmar’s rebel groups have made significant territorial gains against the ruling military junta over the past year. The ...

The narcotics — among them hashish (25.8kg), marijuana (1,349.6kg), opium (2kg), doda (851.4kg), intoxicating powder (3.1kg), and smack/heroin (157g) — were stored in the police station warehouses for ...

The raids were conducted at the houses of two shooters lodged in jails and two others last night following threats and extortion calls to businessmen in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district, police said on ...

VIENTIANE: Police in Laos' Borikhamxay province last week raided a house where drugs were being manufactured and seized a ...