London's Metropolitan Police said at the time the funeral was the biggest policing event in its history, with dignitaries from across the globe in attendance.
The 74-year-old Charles, who will be formally crowned on Saturday, was the oldest sovereign to take the throne in a lineage that dates back 1,000 years.
Pakistan has a new PM, England gets a PM and a King. I have decided to extend my tenure as Pakistan Army chief. How many changes can the world go through at this sensitive time?
The late monarch’s last resting place is St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, next to her husband Prince Philip, father King George VI, mother and sister Princess Margaret.
A state funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey attended by world dignitaries; this will be followed by a more intimate ceremony at the Windsor Palace where she will be laid to rest.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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