It was on October 27, 1947, that Indian troops first set foot in Srinagar, an event that changed South Asia’s history forever. Cloaked in the language of legality, the so-called Instrument of Accession became the pretext for a military occupation that ignored the aspirations of an entire nation. What began as a temporary arrangement has […]
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Here’s how criminals use stolen passport information
The theft of as many as 5 million passport numbers from the Marriott hotel chain last year continues to worry consumers concerned that criminals were using their information for fraud or even travel. Unlike credit card data or personal Social Security numbers, there are few mechanisms in place to alert consumers that their passport numbers […]
400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands
One of the hundreds of rare books stolen from a Pittsburgh library in a 20-year scheme has been recovered in the Netherlands. The FBI will return the 400-year-old Geneva Bible on Thursday. The Bible was among more than 300 rare books, maps, plate books, atlases and more that were discovered missing from the Carnegie Library […]