An artwork at London's National Portrait Gallery created a stir after it revisited ex-UK PM Winston Churchill's role in the 1943 Bengal famine. However, this artwork has now been removed after outrage in UK. As per estimates, three million people died in the famine.


UK Removes Artwork Exposing Churchill's Role in 1943 Bengal Famine Which Killed Millions

Ron DeSantis was once seen as a man who could present at least some challenge to former US president Donald Trump from the lot within the party jostling for the nomination to contest US Presidential Election 2024.

‘DeSaster’ again: DeSantis quotes Budweiser ad thinking words are from Churchill

A famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill has been stolen in Canada and the police believe that it was swapped with a fake picture. The portrait known as “Roaring Lion” was captured by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh just after Churchill’s address at the Canadian parliament in 1941.

Renowned Winston Churchill portrait stolen from hotel in Canada

A pair of Sir Winston Churchill’s velvet slippers have fetched nearly £40,000 at an auction. The footwear went for sale on Tuesday afternoon for the first time in more than 20 years.

Sir Winston Churchill’s slippers sold for almost £40,000 at auction

A painting by Sir Winston Churchill dating back to World War II era and owned by Angelina Jolie has been auctioned for £8.285m (USD 11 m approx). The painting was auctioned at a price four times more than its estimated cost and beat the previous record price for a Churchill which sold under £1.

Winston Churchill's painting owned by Angelina Jolie sold at an auction at Christie's 

A 1943 landscape painted by Winston Churchill and which the wartime British prime minister gifted to US President Franklin D Roosevelt is expected to fetch up to $3.

Churchill wartime painting gift to Roosevelt up for auction

Angelina Jolie who’s geared up for the release of her next Warner Bros. film ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’ is now in news as she will now be selling the only painting created by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II.

Angelina Jolie to auction Winston Churchill's only painting created during World War II

US President Joe Biden's decision to remove the bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has not generated angry reactions from the Downing Street who said it's up to the president's "wishes" of how he decorates the Oval Office.

Joe Biden removes Winston Churchill's bust from Oval Office; Johnson unconcerned

Hollywood star Gary Oldman took home the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the Joe Wright-directed ‘Darkest Hour’. But why are we discussing this now after almost two and half years since this happened?

Was 'Darkest Hour' copied? Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman, makers get lawsuit

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain cannot "photoshop" its cultural landscape and complex history as doing so would be a distortion of its past, amid an ongoing row over the removal of statues of historical figures.

UK PM Boris Johnson defends Churchill, criticises 'distortion of history'

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has termed the ongoing row over the removal of statues of historical figures as a "distortion of our history". Also read: Protesters burn down Wendy's in Atlanta after police shooting "If we start purging the record and removing the images of all but those whose attitudes conform to our own, we are engaged in a great lie, a distortion of our history," Johnson wrote in The Telegraph.

British PM Boris Johnson defends Churchill and terms removing of statues 'distortion of our history'

Google has said it would explore why the picture of Britain’s World War II leader Winston Churchill disappeared from a top search results list of former UK prime ministers -- as protesters call for his statue to be torn down.

Churchill's picture mysteriously vanishes from list of British PMs; Google to 'explore' why

A statue of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was vandalised by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters on Sunday. He might be a great leader for Britain but globally he was considered as a racist.

'Indians are a beastly people with a beastly religion' quoted by Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill is considered as a celebrated statesman and a hero of the free world. Churchill, the UK's wartime prime minister, saved his country and the world from a Nazi invasion.

Was 'icon of the free world' Winston Churchill a racist?

In 1619, Britain sent its first batch of black slaves to America, and now after a little over 400 years, George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, US. This was not the first black national who lost his life in the US because of police brutality, but his killing has triggered a mass movement against racism.

Why Britain cannot run away from flames of racism it once sowed?

UK commemorates 75th VE Day amid coronavirus pandemic

Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the 19th-century ruler of the Sikh Empire in India, has beaten competition from around the world to be named the "Greatest Leader of All Time" in a poll conducted by BBC World Histories Magazine'.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh surpasses UK war-time PM Winston Churchill in poll to be named greatest world leader

February 26 in history: Napoleon Bonaparte's escape from exile, Britain's first own atomic bomb and more

February 11 in history: East India Co's occupation of Awadh, Nelson Mandela's prison release and lots more!

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: Britain refuses to apologise as Archbishop of Canterbury says 'sorry'

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her birthday on Sunday, marking 93 years in the public glare. Here are five facts about Britain's oldest and longest-reigning monarch.

Five facts about Queen Elizabeth II as she turns 93

Jallianwala Bagh centenary: Events that led to the darkest chapter of British colonial rule in India

A 'speech should be like a woman's skirt, not too long that one loses interest and neither too short that it doesn't cover the subject,' Saqib Nisar said

Uproar after Pakistan Chief Justice's 'skirt' remark

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