You can visit the palace site as long as you obtain prior permission. The palace used to be the castle (the Edo Castle) of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it became the palace for the Imperial family in ...

Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When ...

M Murali Naik, a soldier from Andhra Pradesh, has died in cross-border firing at the LoC. He was injured and died while being shifted to hospital. Murali joined the army in 2022. Chief minister N ...

But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of life. The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for ...

Ayesha Siddiqa, a UK-based Pakistani author, has said that is an Islamist in uniform who is unlike any other general Pakistan has ever seen. Siddiqa, in an interview to StratNews Global ...

The campaign to amend the uniform regulations has made headlines across Ireland, whose prime minister has even voiced support for the athletes to have the right to wear shorts. The governing Camogie ...

Scientists are using cosmic distortions in light to test a bold idea: that the Universe might not be as symmetrical as we’ve long believed. If Euclid detects the right kind of patterns, it could ...

(Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images) If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter’s Basilica was once tented for ...

Vadodara celebrated Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, a third-generation military officer, as she addressed the nation on Operation Sindoor, India's response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Hailing from a ...

The crowd assembled in the parking lot of Shimoda Community Hall is a motley crew of spectators from far and near, Edo Period (1603-1868) samurai and geisha, and a small band of Star Wars ...