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  PM Modi departs for 5-nation tour: 'Visit will reinforce India's friendship across Global South'

  India | July 02, 2025 9:32 IST

  Over the next eight days, the Prime Minister will be visiting Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil, and Namibia.

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  Venezuela becomes first nation to lose all glaciers after last one downgraded to 'ice field'

  World | May 10, 2024 18:00 IST

  Venezuela had six glaciers spanning 10 square km in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range but lost five of them by 2011. Climate scientists found that the last Humboldt glacier shrunk to an area of less than 2 hectares, thus downgrading it from a glacier to an ice field.

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  Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalises abortion nationwide, says criminal charges 'unconstitutional'

  World | September 07, 2023 7:51 IST

  Mexico has joined Latin American countries of Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay and Argentina, who have legalised abortion practices.

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  Donald Trump cancels Latin America trip to focus on Syria

  World | April 10, 2018 22:53 IST

  Trump’s decision to skip the South America trip marks the first time an American president has not attended the summit. Vice President Mike Pence will travel in Trump’s place, attending the summit in Lima but not traveling to Colombia.  

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  Venezuela no longer a democracy, say Foreign ministers of 17 Latin American nations

  World | August 09, 2017 12:52 IST

  he bloc on Tuesday also said the Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly convened by President Nicolas Maduro and tasked with drafting a new Constitution was "illegitimate"

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  China emerges as Latin America's lender of last resort

  World | February 06, 2015 7:42 IST

  Beijing: As soon as she landed in Beijing this week, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner began lauding new deals with what she called the world's "No. 1 economy," ranging from two proposed nuclear power

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  India the brightest spot in Asia Pacific region: S&P

  World | December 09, 2014 10:23 IST

  Washington: India has emerged as the brightest spot in the Asia Pacific region as reform has picked up pace in the country in recent months, a top credit rating agency has said."India has been the

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  Latin America applauds Obama's immigration plan

  World | November 22, 2014 11:42 IST

  Mexico City: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto praised President Barack Obama on Friday for his executive orders granting new rights to millions of people living illegally in the United States, calling it “an act of

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  Israel positive about 'Make in India'' campaign: Netanyahu

  World | November 07, 2014 6:27 IST

  Tel Aviv: Responding favourably to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Make in India' initiative, his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh that his country is keen to take advantage of

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  Royal Enfield to enter new markets in Latin America, SE Asia

  August 12, 2014 16:54 IST

  New Delhi: Royal Enfield, the motorcycle division of Eicher Motors, is looking to enter new markets in Latin America and South East Asia in the next three years as it seeks to expand its presence

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  Infosys, IBM bag Rs 2,535 crore RBS deal

  October 03, 2013 21:45 IST

  NEW DELHI: Infosys, India's second largest software services exporter, and software giantIBM have won a 300 million euro (about Rs 2,535 crore) contract to develop the computer system for the UK-based bank Williams & Glyn's.

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  Venezuelans to elect Chavez's successor on April 14

  World | March 10, 2013 17:56 IST

  Caracas, Mar 10: Venezuelans will vote on April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced as increasingly strident political rhetoric begins to roil this polarised country.The constitution mandated the election

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  Latin Americans Evacuate, But No Tsunami Damage

  World | March 12, 2011 9:34 IST

  Santiago, (Chile), Mar 12: Islanders and coastal residents along Latin America's Pacific seaboard moved to higher ground Friday as a precaution against possible tsunami following the superquake that bashed northeastern Japan with huge waves.Officials, however,

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  Congress Unhappy Over Book On Sonia Selling In Europe, Latin America

  India | March 20, 2010 13:21 IST

  A book on the life of Congress president Sonia Gandhi named  El Sari Rojo (The Red Saree) is selling briskly in bookshops in Spain, Italy and Latin America, reports Hindustan Times.   Written by Spanish writer-