Gustavo Petro elected Colombian President in second round of electionsWith 99.67 per cent of polling stations reporting, Petro, candidate of the leftist Historic Pact for Colombia coalition, obtained 11,266,13...
20 Jun, 2022, 08.02 AM IST
Colombia discovers two historical shipwrecks in CaribbeanThe San Jose galleon, thought by historians to be carrying treasure that would be worth billions of dollars, sank in 1708 near Colombia's C...
10 Jun, 2022, 03.50 PM IST
Venezuela halts talks after Maduro ally's extradition to USThe announcement capped a tumultuous day that saw businessman Alex Saab placed on a U.S.-bound plane in Cape Verde after a 16-month fight b...
17 Oct, 2021, 08.35 AM IST
Joe Biden doubles US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shotsThe delta variant raging across the U.S. has proved to be more transmissible than the original strain, though the existing vaccines have be...
22 Sep, 2021, 11.28 PM IST
Trump identifies India, 20 other nations as major drug transit or major illicit drug-producing countries"A country's presence on the foregoing list is not necessarily a reflection of its government's counter-narcotics efforts or level of coope...
17 Sep, 2020, 02.14 PM IST
Mercedes Barcha, widow of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, passes away at 87Barcha is survived by her two sons with Garcia Marquez, Gonzalo and Rodrigo Garcia Barcha.
17 Aug, 2020, 09.18 AM IST
Lockdowns multiply globally as virus strains health systemsMajor streets and highways were deserted in many parts of the world on Saturday as curfews and lockdowns multiplied in the face of a rapidl...
21 Mar, 2020, 06.12 PM IST
US locking down 7 crore people as virus strains EuropeNew York and Illinois announced that they would largely restrict residents to their homes starting this weekend, after America's largest st...
21 Mar, 2020, 11.13 AM IST
Trump, Merkel and Imran to visit WEF at DavosThe World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020, taking place on January 20-24, will focus on establishing stakeholder capitalism as a way of ...
19 Jan, 2020, 11.54 AM IST
A tough year for emerging markets ends with money in bankEmerging markets are about to end a turbulent year in which trade tensions dominated headlines.
17 Dec, 2019, 04.54 PM IST
PM Modi holds series of bilateral meetings on sidelines of UNGA in New YorkPM discussed strengthening bilateral ties with the Italian president, particularly in the field of trade and investment, as also cooperatio...
24 Sep, 2019, 02.02 PM IST
Trump identifies India among major drug transit or illicit drug producing countriesTrump said that a country's presence on the list is not necessarily a reflection of its government's counter-narcotic efforts or level of c...
09 Aug, 2019, 02.58 PM IST
Fed and ECB inflict fresh blows on currencies, stocksThe MSCI Emerging Markets Index of equities slumped 1.9 percent for the week, the biggest drop in a month,
16 Jun, 2018, 11.53 AM IST