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Now Spanish wines woo the Indian connoisseur

by admin May 7, 2007 Business

Ciudad Real (Spain), May 6 (IANS) With Indians increasingly developing a taste for premium wines, a dozen Indian importers and traders are participating in Fenavin, the Spanish wine fair that opens in this balmy wine haven, 188 km from Madrid in southern Spain Monday.

Over a thousand wineries are showcasing their produce and knowledge to connoisseurs [...]

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Sarwan 4th Indian origin player to lead Windies

by admin May 6, 2007 Europe

Port of Spain, May 6 (IANS) Ramnaresh Sarwan has become the fourth player of Indian origin to captain the West Indies cricket since the game was introduced here more than 120 years ago.

He is the first player of Indian origin from Trinidad and Tobago to lead the West Indies. The others – Rohan Kanhai, Alvin [...]

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High hopes for all-Spanish UEFA Cup final

by admin May 2, 2007 Europe

Madrid, May 2 (DPA) There are high hopes in Spain for an all-Spanish UEFA Cup final, unless history repeats itself for Espanyol Barcelona.

Seven years ago there was an all-Spanish Champions League final between Real Madrid and Valencia, but never before have two Spanish teams faced each other in the UEFA Cup final.
There will be at [...]

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Guernica marks 70th anniversary of Nazi bombing

by admin April 27, 2007 Europe

Guernica (Spain), April 26 (DPA) The northern Spanish town of Guernica Thursday marked the 70th anniversary of its bombing by Nazi Germany, which inspired Pablo Picasso’s monumental anti-war painting “Guernica” (1937).

Delegations from European and Japanese cities, which were bombed during World War II, attended the memorial events at which Basque regional Prime Minister Juan Jose [...]

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Spain, Pakistan agree to strengthen anti-terror fight

by admin April 25, 2007 World

Madrid, April 25 (Xinhua) Spain and Pakistan have agreed to strengthen their joint efforts to boost trade and to fight terrorism and illegal migration.

The agreement was reached during a meeting between Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and visiting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf at the Moncloa Palace, said a statement from Spanish prime minister’s office.
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Hindu leadership in Trinidad politics comes under fire

by admin April 23, 2007 Europe

Port of Spain, April 23 (IANS) Members of the Hindu community, making up 26 percent of Trinidad & Tobago’s 1.3 million population, have come out openly against what they call the “weak leadership” of the group in the country’s politics.

According to Suren Capildeo, a cousin of Nobel Laureate Sir V.S. Naipaul, the Hindu in Trinidad [...]

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Naipaul to publish fourth book on India by year’s end

by admin April 23, 2007 World

Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), April 22 (IANS) With a confirmed voice that he has no plans to retire, V.S.Naipaul has announced publication of his fourth book on India.

He said that this book will be ready for the bookshelves by year’s end.
Asked that if his harsh criticisms of India in his previous works, notably [...]

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Spain’s oldest cave paintings may be 30,000 years old

by admin April 19, 2007 World

Madrid, April 19 (Xinhua) The paintings in Spain’s Cantal caves date back to 30,000 years ago and are the oldest in Spain, researcher Pedro Cantalejo said.

The hunter-gatherers who painted Cantal’s more than 200 paintings began work 30,000 to 20,000 years ago, older than the famous cave paintings of Altamira in northern Spain as well as [...]

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Trinidad government controlling police: Basdeo Panday

by admin March 28, 2007 World

Port-of-Spain, March 28 (IANS) Police have conducted so many searches at the residence of Trinidad and Tobago’s former Indian-origin prime minister Basdeo Panday that he says he does not know where to hide his underwear.

Panday has accused the government of controlling law enforcement agents in the country, according to the Trinidad Express newspaper.
“They have tarnished [...]

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