On Thursday, Union Minister Piyush Goyal met with Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, who is in India for a 3-day visit, as Delhi and Brasília look to expand strategic ties.
It will be his second visit to South America in last 8 months. The packed schedule will see a week of travel, as New Delhi seeks to step up its cooperation with the two regions.
A woman died in Jamaica’s Hanover parish after a tree fell on her home. Warning for hurricane is in effect for Jamaica, Cayman Islands & eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
The lack of resources to test and track the OROV virus through comprehensive surveillance systems severely hampers efforts to accurately monitor outbreaks.
Published in Scientific Reports journal, the French study looks at how plant may have spread via trade routes & attempts to understand how popular cacao varieties were domesticated.
South America’s Pantanal wetlands — reaching into Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay — are burning at a record pace this year, and commercial farmers are largely to blame.
Suriname, where Hinduism is the second most practiced religion in the country, voted former police chief Chan Santokhi to replace Desi Bouterse as president.
While it has not eliminated the virus, as similarly sized New Zealand has, Uruguay is one of just a handful of countries to effectively manage the disease.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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