Columbia

Rahul Gandhi is on an over a week-long visit to Latin American countries Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Chile. .

Three dead as wave of bombings, gun attacks rocks Colombia

The attacks hit Cali -- the country's third largest city -- and several nearby towns, targeting police stations and other municipal buildings

Trump Vs Harvard: Why Trump Froze $2.2 Billion in Grants to Harvard over campus activism

Donald Trump has frozen $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism and alleged antisemitism. What triggered this? What are Trump's demands—and why is Harvard pushing back? Full breakdown inside.

Trump escalates crackdown on elite universities with sweeping action against Columbia

Trump’s crackdown on Columbia University marks the start of a broader federal campaign to reshape higher education by leveraging funding to target antisemitism, DEI initiatives, and campus protests.

Violence flares at UCLA as police end protests at New York's Columbia

Eyewitness videos from the University of California at Los Angeles, verified by Reuters, showed people wielding sticks or poles to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were called to the campus.

Joe Biden calls Cambodia 'Columbia' in new gaffe during ASEAN Summit | Watch

Earlier, the US President had told reporters he was "heading over to Colombia", before quickly correcting himself to say "I mean Cambodia".

Mexico has Tequila. Peru, Pisco. In Colombia, a push for Viche, now legal

Viche, made of distilled sugar cane, was invented by formerly enslaved people in the region around Colombia’s Pacific coast. Outlawed for generations, viche became a symbol of the long-standing exclusion of Black culture from Colombia’s national narrative

Seven Colombia police killed in deadliest attack since leftist took office

President Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla, has pledged to seek "total peace" by restarting talks with leftist ELN rebels

Errol Musk says he’s been asked to donate sperm to create new generation of Elons

Errol Musk claims that "high-class women" want his sperm because they say "Why go to Elon when they can go to the actual person who created Elon?"

Kerala man earns 145 certificates from Yale, Princeton and Columbia during lockdown

Shafi Vikraman was attending 20 courses simultaneously, each ranging from two days to two months. He took up diverse subjects like medical, finance, robotics, artificial intelligence, forensics, blockchain, cryptocurrency, food and beverage management and psychology.

Colombian man with non-terminal illness dies publicly under new euthanasia policy

"I suffer from my diseases, and I suffer watching my family suffer because of me," Victor Escobar had said in October, gasping for breath. He chose to die on January 7 -- a Friday, so it would be easy for relatives to go to his funeral on the weekend, his lawyer said.

Moderna to supply COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan and Colombia

Deliveries are expected to begin in mid-2021, the company added.

Thousands gather for renewed Colombia protests, three dead after marches on November 21

President Ivan Duque has denied and anger at what protesters say is a lack of government action to stop corruption and the murder of human rights activists

Essel Propack Q2 consolidated net up 27% to Rs 71 cr

Packaging firm Essel Propack today reported a 27.37 per cent increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 70.77 crore for the second quarter ended September.

Jubilant Life arm gets Australia TGA nod for lung scan drug

"Jubilant Pharma, through one of its units Jubilant DraxImage Inc Montreal Canada (JDI), has received approval from TGA, Australia, for Lyophilized kit for preparation of Technetium 99m Macro-Aggregated Albumin (MAA) injection," Jubilant Life Sciences said in a BSE filing.

Aim to expand sales in Central, Latin markets: Hero

Built at a capacity of USD 70 million, the Columbia plant has an installed capacity of 80,000 units per year, which is expected to go up to 1, 50,000 units in the second phase.

Slowdown behind: Bajaj targets double-digit growth by July

S Ravikumar, president-business development, Bajaj Auto see robust exports in the month of July and expects sales to be in region of 160,000 units.

Hero MotoCorp looks for larger exports play

Despite the company facing a lot of competition, it is going to enter eight new export markets and somewhere in the middle of FY15, the company is going to start its first manufacturing facility, which will be in Columbia.

Stanford ranked top US university on Forbes list

Stanford, a research and teaching university in Northern California's Silicon Valley, ranked No. 1, jumping from third place last year after scoring high marks for retention rates and high graduate starting salaries. It has 19,945 students and annual costs are USD 58,846.

Cisco to acquire cyber security firm Sourcefire for $2.7 bn

Networking solution provider Cisco will acquire security firm Sourcefire for USD 2.7 billion cash, a move which is aimed at boosting the company's network security business.

Space-shuttle Columbia's second life: A cautionary tale

Space-shuttle Columbia's flying days came to an abrupt and tragic end on February 1, 2003, when a broken wing gave way, dooming the seven astronauts aboard. Although Columbia now lies in pieces, its mission is not over.

India's coffee exports up 55% to 40000 tonne in June 2011

Buoyed by robust global demand, India's coffee exports jumped by almost 55% in June this year to 40,000 tonnes. Shipments of the brew totalled 25,710 tonnes in the corresponding month a year ago, according to data released by the Coffee Board.

Global coffee production estimated at 135m bags: USDA

World coffee production in 2011-12 season is estimated at 135 million bags of 60 kg each on the back of record output of robusta in Brazil and Vietnam followed by a recovery in Columbia, a USDA report said.