Argentina

SC junks PIL to ensure maximum voting in polls

7:13 pm August 2, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday junked a PIL seeking directions to the Centre and the Election Commission to frame guidelines to ensure that more citizens cast their votes in polls. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi dismissed the plea filed in 2014 which had also sought directions for ensuring that maximum number […]

Merkel: G20 to sign ‘similar’ climate deal to previous meet

1:51 pm June 29, 2019

Osaka: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that the G20 would sign a similar deal on climate change to that agreed at the last meeting in Argentina, where the United States was isolated. “We will have a similar text to Argentina. A 19+1 declaration,” Merkel told reporters on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in […]

Argentina, Uruguay restore power after massive blackout

5:47 pm June 17, 2019

Buenos Aires: Electricity services have been restored to all of Argentina and Uruguay following a massive blackout that left around 48 million people without power on Sunday, authorities said. The cut, which began just after 7:00 am, also caused short, localized losses of power in Paraguay, but didn’t impact Tierra del Fuego in Argentina’s extreme […]

Massive power outage hits Argentina, Uruguay: Power companies

10:55 pm June 16, 2019

Buenos Aires: A massive outage blacked out Argentina and Uruguay Sunday, leaving both South American countries without electricity, power companies said. Uruguay’s system went down at 7:06 am (1006 GMT), according to the Uruguayan power company UTE, which attributed the outage to “a fault in the Argentine network.” Two Argentine power companies confirmed the failure […]

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