Macondo: The fictional town that lives on in real places like Aracataca, Antigua, and MalgudiThe non-existent town of Macondo, central to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, finds real-world parallels in va...
11 Jan, 2025, 09.40 PM IST
The best show of 2024, with a perfect Rotten Tomato score, is now on Netflix; All you need to knowNetflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings the iconic novel to life in an ambitious Spanish-lang...
12 Dec, 2024, 12.26 PM IST
Virgin River Season 6 release date on Netflix: Will Mel and Jack get married?"Virgin River" Season 6 release date on Netflix is scheduled in December. Fans are waiting for Mel and Jack's wedding.
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Colombian engineer's library is filled with different editions of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Jorge Ivan Salazar owns 379 editions of the book.
26 Oct, 2022, 09.46 AM IST
Google honours Gabriel García Márquez with colourful doodle on 90th birth anniversaryThe doodle depicts the magical city of Macondo.
06 Mar, 2018, 06.08 PM IST
2 million barrels of oil from BP spill may be on ocean floorOne unsolved puzzle is the location of two million barrels of submerged oil thought to be trapped in the deep ocean, researchers said.
28 Oct, 2014, 02.32 PM IST
Scotland referendum: Other instances where countries and people have voted to indicate what they wantThe vote was closely watched across the world. However, this isn’t the first time that people have chosen to determine their destiny via su...
21 Sep, 2014, 01.25 PM IST
BP's $7 billion deal with Reliance pushes BRIC strategyBP Plc CEO Robert Dudley's second over-$7-bn deal this year signals a shift for BP toward the world's fastest-growing economies as explorat...
23 Feb, 2011, 01.40 AM IST
- BP to conduct test to show if Gulf well dead
BP Plc will conduct a pressure test on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Saturday to make sure that cement pumped into the botto...
19 Sep, 2010, 12.22 PM IST
- BP's Hayward to testify to UK lawmakers on spill
Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward comes under scrutiny from British lawmakers on Wednesday over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
15 Sep, 2010, 06.16 PM IST
- Key evidence in US oil probe raised from the depths
Workers have retrieved the failed blowout preventer from BP's Macondo oil well, giving US investigators a key piece of evidence
05 Sep, 2010, 08.02 PM IST
- BP spill costs hit $ 8bn as crews unearth clues
British oil giant BP has spent $ 8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evide...
05 Sep, 2010, 07.39 AM IST
- BP well kill delayed until second week of September
BP aims to permanently seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well in the second week of September, US official said, as pressure concerns fu...
19 Aug, 2010, 10.13 PM IST
- Transocean gets 249 lawsuits, claims over oil spill
Close to 250 lawsuits or claims have been filed against Transocean, the company which owns the BP-leased offshore rig behind the huge Gulf ...
06 Aug, 2010, 03.58 AM IST
- BP partner refuses to pay $1.2-bn oil spill bill
BP partner Anadarko has been billed $1.2 billion to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but will refuse to pay.
04 Aug, 2010, 11.22 PM IST
- BP to set aside $100 million for unemployed rig workers
The moratorium, due to be lifted in Nov, has idled dozens of rigs in Gulf and cos are moving vessels to work in other parts of the world. T...
31 Jul, 2010, 02.04 AM IST
- Anadarko tells BP it won't help pay for oil spill
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. is refusing to pay BP about $272 million for its share of the costs tied to the massive Gulf oil spill.
09 Jul, 2010, 09.39 PM IST