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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicCharles Dickens

Topic: Charles Dickens

Untold story of Charles Dickens’ final hours: What you didn’t know about his death and burial

New evidence from libraries, archives and cathedral vaults prove that claims about Dickens' Westminster burial being the will of the people are false.

SC quotes Charles Dickens in Kashmir internet order — but it’s not the first time

Justice N.V. Ramana, who authored the verdict, quoted the famous opening lines from Charles Dickens’ novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ before reading out the judgment.

Did we sleep twice rather than once? And should we do it again?

Research shows segmented sleep, with two sleep periods, was the norm before it started disappearing in the late 17th century.

On Camera

Modi’s three Iran blunders lead to one question—where’s strategic autonomy?

Three avoidable blunders in PM Modi's handling of the US-Israel attack on Iran have laid bare the hollowness of his claims to global leadership.

Insuring vessels sailing through Hormuz now costs five times what it did in early days of Iran war

Insuring vessels to sail through the Strait of Hormuz is still possible, even if at a very high cost.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.