CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin is set to formally kick off his campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections on April 2, marking a key moment in the ruling party’s bid to stay in power.

After months of back-and-forth between the Tamil Nadu government and the Centre, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has granted approval for excavations at eight sites across the state, ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday (March 13, 2026) commissioned, through video conference from the Secretariat in Chennai, the first unit of the 2×660 MW supercritical thermal power ...

A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known as “Socialism in ...

Giorgi Mamulia is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and a graduate of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France, and researcher of Caucasian history. His work often ...

The Soviet system trembled the moment Stalin died. His sudden death in March 1953 unleashed fear, rivalries, and secret maneuvering among Beria, Khrushchev, and the party elite. This episode examines ...

Months before World War II ended, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin secretly divided their spheres of influence in the Balkans. Photo of the two leaders from a Moscow conference in 1942. Public ...

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help. By Gary J. Bass The museum had preserved the ...

What did Vladimir Lenin really think of Joseph Stalin? Explore the critical letters, personal doubts, and final political testament that reveal Lenin’s deep concerns about Stalin’s character and his ...

IN THE SPRING OF 2022, THE EARLY DAYS and weeks of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine were marked by a drastic hardening of authoritarianism in Russia—or, perhaps more accurately, a drastic plunge from ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...