London: – Coronavirus claimed 917 lives in the United Kingdom, in 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths near 10,000. The pandemic has claimed more than 70,000 lives in Europe and the European Union has announced an aid of $540 billion for the anti-coronavirus crusade. 9,875 patients have […]
London: – In the last 24 hours, Coronavirus claimed 439 lives in the United Kingdom, taking the total number of deaths to more than 5,300. Although the number of deaths in the United Kingdom is less as compared to the other European countries Italy, Spain and France, as of now, a US Study group claimed […]
Beijing: President of China Xi Jinping has warned that the principle of ‘One country, two systems’ is posing a threat due to the aggressive protesters in Hong Kong over the past few days. At the same time, supporting the ongoing action by the Hong Kong administration and the police against the protestors, the main objective should […]
London/Beirut: 31 soldiers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in a blast in the all-important Shayrat airbase in Syria. Although the Syrian mouthpiece has claimed technical error as the cause of explosion, a Britain based Human rights organisation has expressed the possibility of another reason behind the blast. Earlier, it was revealed that the […]
Israel won the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. However, despite winning the war against the Arab nations, having to fight the war right at its creation had left Israel’s condition weak. All the resources of the country had come under strain due to the colossal war expense. At the same time, the number of Jews immigrating to […]
Israel won the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In spite of the inadequate number of troops and very limited firepower, Israel had won the conflict by overcoming numerous challenges with sheer perseverance in a battle heavily skewed in favour of the well-armed militaries of the five Arab nations which had invaded Israel from all the four sides. […]
For a few days, at the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, due to the shortage of arms and ammunition with the Jews, the Arabs enjoyed an upper hand over them. Then, the Jewish diaspora spread across the world girded up their loins to get their motherland out of this problem and consequently, within no […]
The fire of the Arab-Jew conflict that raged from the very next day after the verdict of the United Nations on the partition of Palestine refused to die down. In March 1948, considering the overall explosive situation, the United States withdrew its support to the Palestine Partition Plan of the United Nations. The US opposed […]
The United Nations had approved the concept of the ‘Jewish homeland in Palestine’, but in spite of it, David Ben-Gurion was well-aware that it was to face numerous hurdles. Hence, for the last few months, he tried whatever he could to augment the manpower and the firepower of the Haganah. Importantly, Ben-Gurion put his efforts […]
The attention of the whole world had by now focused on the decision that the United Nations would give on the plan of Palestine’s partition submitted by the special committee appointed by it (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine’ or the UNSCOP) for handling the Palestine issue. However, the Israeli leaders, especially David Ben-Gurion, were […]