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1 month, 1 week ago

Why Blackpink's Lisa made the Vanity Fair Hollywood cover: Indian-origin EIC defends decision amid heated online debate

BLACKPINK’s Lisa is indeed cover story material. How Vanity Fair describes Lisa Manobal The official Vanity Fair announcement of the multi-faceted star-studded lineup for the 2025 Hollywood Issue Cover led the popular magazine’s digital portfolio to list her qualifications as “Lisa, from the K-pop sensation Blackpink and soon to be seen in The White Lotus, built a talent management company.” …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

A Mysore nawab and his French Connection

Hindustan Times

After that weird, wonderful and very wet opening ceremony of the 33rd Olympiad, La Ville-Lumiere has once again exploded into our collective consciousness as a city we simply cannot ignore. It seems a good time, therefore, to examine one of our own city’s historical connections to la belle France – the 18th century military alliance forged by Nawab Hyder Ali …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Chinese studying abroad sees decrease this year

China Daily

Although the United States is one of the main destinations for Chinese students' undergraduate studies abroad, there have been fewer undergraduate students from the Chinese mainland in recent years, according to a white paper released by overseas education consultancy EIC Education. The White Paper on Undergraduate Chinese Students Studying Abroad was released on Saturday, aiming to provide a planning blueprint …

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2 years, 5 months ago

DGFT Notifies Procedure For Submission Of Requests For Seeking IMC's Approval For Export Of Wheat Flour

Live Law

The Director General of Foreign Trade has notified the procedure for submission of requests for seeking the approval of Inter-Ministerial Committees for the export of wheat flour. To get the necessary NOC from IMC for the export of wheat flour, all exporters must submit their request in the ANF 2N application format. Online submitted full applications in the necessary format …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Anand Mahindra shares Twitter thread on East India Company, says 'delighted to be part of turning history upside down'

Firstpost

Mahindra responded to a Twitter thread by author and tech expert Jaspreet Bindra, who gave a short history of the EIC and spoke about Indian-origin businessman Sanjiv Mehtawho bought it in the early 2000s Business tycoon Anand Mahindra, whose company bought a minority stake in the East India Company nearly a decade ago, said he was delighted to have played …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Book Review | The many unknown acts of the great Bengal tragedy

Deccan Chronicle

Writing about India’s Partition and many other related issues/events of those times as well as of periods well before and well after Independence is not very easy because of so much of history being swept under the carpet, destroyed, kept classified, or twisted. The chapters are: Bengal Encounters Islam, Plassey: Sale of Bengal, 1857: Impact on the Colonial Narrative, Indian …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Kolkata Never Gave the Due Honour to Her First ‘Medici’!

The Quint

Imperial Kolkata’s British population was never very large. However, they desired to have in Kolkata of all amenities available back home - newspapers, banks, taverns, hotels, theatres, good road, river infrastructures, police and justice systems. The private British traders wanted to have independent banks as the EIC would not lend them capital. They wanted newspapers to update their knowledge on …

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3 years, 8 months ago

A new book, by V.K. Thiruvady, traces the history of the Lalbagh garden in Bengaluru

The Hindu

FOR a long period in its modern history, Bengaluru was known by the touristy moniker “Garden City” as verdant patches of greenery enveloped its fledgling urbanity. According to Vijay R. Thiruvady, author of the recently published Lalbagh: Sultans’ Garden to Public Park, Lalbagh, or Red Garden, is one of India’s best public gardens as “it has the most diverse collection …

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