Hammer meets steel. But where the superiority ... Across the ice of the bay a great Russian sickle swept again & again. It hit some stumps and some stones, but it cut down a lot of grass.

The running joke online was that the CPM would soon be forced to trade its hammer and sickle symbol for the symbol of a civet or pangolin, or any symbol allotted by the Election Commission.

In the 1920s and ’30s, clerks at The Times collected stamps from overseas mail. The postage tells of a fluid world history.

The Soviet memorial at Liberation Square in Košice will undergo reconstruction, according to a contract between the city and the Municipal Greenery Administration, which manages the monument.

The CPI(M)'s West Bengal unit changed its Facebook display picture to a blue and white hue, prompting criticism from netizens ...