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India ranks 70th in list of best countries in the world, Sweden tops 163-nation list
Jun 03, 2016, 06:42 PM ISTNew Delhi: Sweden has been voted as the best country in the world and India figured low at the 70th position in a list of 163 nations. This list is with regard to serving the
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Sweden: Men population overtakes women's for first time in over 250 years
World | May 30, 2016, 09:35 PM ISTStockholm: Acknowledged for its attempts to keep men and women on an equal level, Sweden broke it's 267 years long record as it experienced a surprise shift in gender balance with number of men surpassing
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Sweden’s Landvetter airport evacuated after bomb threat, two suspicious bags found
World | Mar 31, 2016, 06:42 PM ISTA bomb threat and unverified reports of a ‘controlled explosion’ at the Landvetter airport, Sweden’s second largest, has sent the security apparatus in a tizzy.
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Hand sanitizers removed from Sweden after teenage abuse
World | Feb 25, 2016, 01:40 PM ISTStockholm: Pharmacies in Sweden have taken hand sanitizers off their shelves after they discovered that teenagers had been intoxicating themselves by drinking these."Young people come in to the emergency room with alcohol poisoning and say
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Julian Assange detained arbitrarily, should be freed, rules UN panel
World | Feb 05, 2016, 08:57 PM ISTGeneva: A human rights panel of the United Nations has said that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” by U.K. and Sweden since December 2010 and he should be freed and compensated.The U.N.
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'Powerful blast' reported at school building in Sweden's Karlstad
World | Feb 02, 2016, 09:42 PM ISTStockholm: A powerful explosion has been reported at a secondary school building in the Swedish town of Karlstad, local media reported. The cause of the blast is not known yet.There is currently no information to
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Scientists win Nobel chemistry award for work on DNA repair
World | Oct 07, 2015, 05:21 PM ISTStockholm: Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and US-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in chemistry today for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair."The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work "has provided
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Sweden drops some sex cases against Julian Assange
World | Aug 14, 2015, 07:33 AM ISTHelsinki (AP): Swedish prosecutors on Thursday dropped cases of lesser sexual misconduct against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but said they still want to question him on accusations of rape made after his visit to
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Top 5 Unusual hotels around the world
World | Jun 21, 2015, 08:34 PM ISTWhether you still harbour childhood dreams of living in a tree house, or you love cars so much that you'd give anything to sleep inside one, there's a crazy hotel somewhere to fit into your
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President Mukherjee announces e-tourist visas for Swedish nationals
India | Jun 03, 2015, 08:45 AM ISTStockholm/New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday announced e-tourist visas for all Swedish nationals during an interaction with business leaders from India and Sweden in Stockholm.Mukherjee, who is on a state visit to Sweden, assured
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President Mukherjee safe after 'minor' accident in his convoy in Sweden
World | Jun 03, 2015, 08:52 AM ISTStockholm/New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee and the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden have escaped unharmed following a 15-car pile-up involving their motorcade in the Swedish town of Uppsala, Swedish media reports said.Rashtrapati Bhavan termed
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Sweden backs India's UNSC bid, says it is 'natural claimant'
World | Jun 02, 2015, 12:59 PM ISTStockholm: Sweden has backed India's bid for a permanent seat in a reformed UN Security Council, saying the country is a "natural claimant" for it in view of its size as well as growth. Sweden also
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India, Sweden ink six agreements on Pranab Mukherjee visit
World | Jun 02, 2015, 09:11 AM ISTStockholm/New Delhi: India and Sweden on Monday inked six agreements, including in the field of polar research and for boosting trade, during the visit of President Pranab Mukherjee to the key Arctic Council member, in
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India, Sweden to restart strategic dialogue; sign agreements
World | Jun 01, 2015, 11:09 PM ISTStockholm: India and Sweden today signed several agreements to boost ties and decided to restart the bilateral strategic dialogue besides finding ways for investment by the Nordic country in India's defence sector under the ambitious
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President embarks on five-day state visit to Sweden, Belarus
India | May 31, 2015, 02:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today embarked on a five-day state visit to Sweden and Belarus, the first ever by any Indian head of state, during which a number of key agreements are likely to
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President to begin five-day visit to Sweden, Belarus today
India | May 31, 2015, 09:54 AM ISTNew Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee leaves on Sunday for a five-day state visit to Sweden and Belarus, in the first presidential visit to both countries.The visit is set to see bolstering of bilateral ties as
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India warns Swedish daily to edit Bofors references by Pranab Mukherjee
India | May 28, 2015, 09:31 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Indian envoy to Sweden has warned Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter to edit references to the Bofors controversy made by President Pranab Mukherjee in an interview else the presidential visit to Oslo was
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Slain Bangladesh blogger could have been saved, Swedish embassy refused him visa
World | May 14, 2015, 01:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das, who was hacked to death by Islamists in Sylhet could have been saved, had the Swedish Embassy in Dhaka granted him visa to visit Sweden.The Swedish chapter of
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Several people shot, two dead in Sweden hotel, say police
World | Mar 19, 2015, 02:10 PM ISTSweden: Several people were shot inside a restaurant in the city of Goteborg late Wednesday and at least two of them have died, Swedish police said.Police said in a statement that an automatic weapon is
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European recognition of Palestinian state irresponsible: Israel
World | Nov 07, 2014, 07:29 PM ISTJerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday termed as "irresponsible" the European politicians who have called for unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood, a media report said."Jerusalem is Israel's capital and it is not a settlement,"