Spain

Manish Kaushik enters quarters of Spanish boxing tourney

9:36 pm March 3, 2021

New Delhi: Olympic-bound Indian boxer Manish Kaushik (63kg) advanced to the quarterfinals of the Boxam International Tournament with a facile opening round win in Castellano, Spain. The world championship bronze-medallist defeated Spaniard Ammari Raddouane 5-0 on Tuesday night to make the last eight, where he will be up against Kazakhstan’s Sufiullin Zakir — a two-time […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Former king absent as Spain marks 40 years since failed coup

10:30 pm February 23, 2021

Madrid: King Felipe VI, Spanish lawmakers and others are marking 40 years since a paramilitary coup attempt failed to derail the country’s peaceful transition to democracy, but the anniversary has been overshadowed by the absence of a former monarch now beset by financial scandals. King Emeritus Juan Carlos I was not invited to Tuesday’s event at the same parliament […]

Separatists grow majority in Catalonia despite Socialist win

11:31 am February 15, 2021

Barcelona: The pro-union Socialist Party claimed a narrow win in regional elections in Catalonia late Sunday, but the bloc of parties supporting secession by Spain’s northeastern corner widened their control of the regional parliament. With 99 per cent of the votes counted, the three main parties pledging to carve out an independent Catalan state increased […]

165 infected with UK variant of COVID-19 in India, says govt

2:59 pm January 28, 2021

New Delhi: The number of people who have tested positive for the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the country has climbed to 165, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. All these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective state governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive […]

In a first for Spain, Jesuits admit to decades of sex abuse

11:41 pm January 22, 2021

Madrid: The first comprehensive internal inquiry on sex abuse allegations by a religious order in Spain has identified 81 children and 37 adult victims by 96 Jesuits since the late 1920s, a much higher number than the cases that had so far been publicly known. Associations of victims are welcoming the disclosure, but they see it falling short since […]