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Since becoming the 45th president of America in January, Donald Trump has kept the political experts busy finding answers to two questions: what will be the long- and short-term effects of his presidency and how the history will judge his tenure?

Turkish home appliances maker Arçelik is working on acquisitions to speed up its international expansion, particularly in Asia, its chief executive said on March 20.

During the spy games of WWII, the result of the war was hanging by a thread. Gevorg Vartanian, a young Armenian who joined the Soviet intelligence circle through his father, proved to be a valuable asset, even when he was 16 years old. Vartanian’s father posed as a rich Persian merchant in Tehran for 23 years, having moved there in 1930 when his son was six years old.

Fossils discovered recently in the central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh, a good 400 million years older than the oldest plant-like fossils ever found, suggest that the complex organisms appeared earlier than assumed.

Swedish scientists have uncovered 1.6 billion-year-old fossils that indicate multi-cellular life developed much earlier than previously thought — possibly 400 million years earlier.

Shashi Tharoor, a member of the Indian Parliament, believes that India needs a museum on British colonisation of the South Asian country. In his latest publication 'Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India', Chairman of the Indian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee says that the greatest challenge Indians are facing is the decolonisation of the mind.

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily freezing immigration from seven predominantly Islamic countries would affect only about 12% of the world’s Muslims, according to estimates from a 2015 Pew Research Center report on the current and projected size of religious groups.

The victory of good over evil! That is the core of the holy Hindu festival of India, the Holi. Famed as the most colorful of all festivals, today is the day to paint the world as bright as possible. This year another spring festival fell almost on the same dates, as the other day it was Purim, the jolliest of all Jewish celebrations. 

A wife in India has cut off her husband’s penis after he refused to have sex with her for more than a decade.
Rita Yadav, 28, attacked her husband Ved Prakash, 31, at their home in Khora Colony, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, on Thursday morning.

CNN presenter Reza Aslan has been heavily criticized after he ate part of a human brain while filming with a Hindu cannibal sect in India.
The episode, part of a series called Believer with Reza Aslan, was shown on Sunday and provoked horror and dismay from many viewers and an angry backlash by Hindus in America.