Punkah' is a colonial-era anglicisation of the Hindustani term pankha, which referred to handheld fans. Punkah-pullers were ...

Punkah refers to a large, rope-pulled, swinging fan hung from the ceiling that became a staple for the British to withstand ...

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

Abe’s message was clear: The fate of the Pacific and Indian oceans would be increasingly intertwined, and democratic states would need to work together to preserve stability. His vision resonated in ...

May 6th, 1954, saw the conclusion of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War. This decisive victory for the Viet Minh over French colonial forces led to the end of French ...

It was almost identical.” Aamir was participating in a session titled 'Studios of the Future: Putting India on World Studio Map' at WAVES 2025 on Friday morning. On stage, the actor also spoke ...

In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is ...

This time, Zhejiang Dongyi Holding Group Co., Ltd. actively participated in the joint production of this distribution map, contributing to the healthy and rapid development and upgrading of the motor ...

As the men detailed their route on a bureau map, photographer Sarah Errington ... at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 marked the end of French Indochina and sparked major changes in the region with the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — They’d watched overnight as the bombardments grew closer, and observed through binoculars as the last U.S. Marines piled into a helicopter on the roof of the embassy to be ...

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