In 1947, the British viceroy announced that after 200 years of British rule, India would gain independence and be partitioned into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. What followed was one of the largest and bloodiest forced migrations in...

The first organized state in India came into being around 3000 BCE along the Indus River Valley in what is now Pakistan. Over the centuries, kingdoms rose, flourished, and fell, eventually leading to British colonization and subsequently...

India is a land of stark contrasts—from its deserts to its snowy mountains, it’s home to many different ethnicities and cultural traditions that can be traced back thousands of years. Boasting a rich and complicated cultural heritage,...

"Important People of India" examines the lives of important people in Indian history.

In the 1980s Nauru was the richest country in the world on a per capita basis. Nauru's wealth can be entirely attributed to its deposits of Phosphate, a substance used in fertilizers. However, by the early 2000s they had completely run...

Who was responsible for the partition and why did they agree to itYasmin Khan on the Indian Partition, Part 6

Pandit Nehru's leadership wasn't unchallenged even within the Congress party. The first major challenge came a few years after he became India's first Prime Minister. In this episode of Dance of Democracy, we look at the time the...

पीएम मोदी (PM Modi) ने हाल ही में पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू (Jawaharlal Nehru) को लेकर बयान दिया था. जिस पर अब कांग्रेस महासचिव(संचार) जयराम रमेश (Jairam Ramesh) ने प्रतिक्रिया देते हुए कहा, "प्रधानमंत्री मोदी, जवाहर लाल नेहरू की आलोचना करने...

Reacting to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's "There won’t be elections anymore in India if Modi voted to power in 2024" statement, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi launched a scathing attack on Congress over ‘dynastic politics’. He went...

WS MS PAN Khrushchev and Bulganin alight from plane, welcomed by Nehru, huge crowds, state leaders in convertible car with parade in city streets / India, AUDIO

MS PAN Castro at UN (1960) welcomed by Khrushchev, Khrushchev and various Third World leaders (Nehru, Nasser, African leaders and others from nonaligned countries / New York, USA

WS MS CU ZO Meeting of Asian and African states (April 18-24 1955) Decolonization movement, Third World representatives of nonaligned countries, Nasser street scene with people riding bicycles, the Chinese delegation (Chou En-lai) and...

Mar.14 -- In today's "Single Best Chart," Bloomberg's Tom Keene displays the Fed Funds target rate going back to 1999. He speaks with Neil Dutta, head of U.S. economics at Renaissance macro, and New York University Stern School of...

June 15 -- Former Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder comments on today's decision by the Fed's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee to leave rates unchanged. He speaks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene and Mike McKee on "Bloomberg Markets."

Jun.19 -- Kristin Forbes, MIT Professor of global economics and a former MPC member of the Bank of England, discusses the need for a fix of inflation models and new ways of determining unemployment data. She speaks with Bloomberg's Matt...

Names from across global financial markets react to the Federal Reserve leaving interest rates unchanged. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 17 -- Martin Hegarty, BlackRock portfolio manager, discusses the impact of the U.S. election on the economy and the outlook for inflation with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu and Joe Weisenthal on "What'd You Miss?"

Dec.11 -- Jeffrey Rosenberg, BlackRock Systemic Fixed Income senior portfolio manager, and Scott Minerd, Guggenheim Partners co-founder and Guggenheim Global chief investment officer, comment on the decision by the Federal Reserve to...