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Miguel Uribe shooting: 15-year-old shooter given 7 years in youth facility

Senator Miguel Uribe was a candidate for next year's presidential election and was shot in Bogota.
Updated on Aug 28, 2025 03:43 am IST

Miguel Uribe's security was cut on day of assassination bid, says Colombia prez

Colombian presidential candidate, Miguel Uribe is still in a serious condition, fighting for his life at the hospital.
Updated on Jun 10, 2025 02:45 am IST

Colombian presidential candidate shot at rally in Bogota, rushed to hospital

Colombian presidential candidate, Miguel Uribe shot at a rally
Updated on Jun 08, 2025 10:09 am IST

Song Joong Ki's ‘Bogota looks super boring': All eyes on K-drama comeback

Song Joong Ki in Bogota: City of the Lost.
Published on Jan 08, 2025 08:41 pm IST

Song Joong Ki reveals his favourite OST as he remembers late Lee Sun Kyun

Song Joong Ki (left) My Mister poster starring Lee Sun Kyun and IU (right)
Published on Dec 25, 2024 07:03 am IST

Answer is not in Metro or BRT alone but multimodal system: Former Bogota mayor

Claudia Lopez was first elected woman and first openly LGBTQ+ mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota (Mayor’s Office of Bogota/Sourced Photo)
Updated on Aug 10, 2024 05:56 pm IST

A warlord involved in hundreds of murders is released from a Colombian prison

A warlord involved in hundreds of murders is released from a Colombian prison
Published on Jul 11, 2024 02:42 am IST

Colombian armed group Segunda Marquetalia agrees unilateral ceasefire

Colombian armed group Segunda Marquetalia agrees unilateral ceasefire
Published on Jul 01, 2024 09:24 am IST

Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military

Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military
Published on May 21, 2024 01:21 am IST

Colombia recognizes dissident ELN faction as independent organization

Colombia recognizes dissident ELN faction as independent organization
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 12:40 pm IST

Chonta DJ; riding the third wave in Latin American music

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Alejandra Gomez, also known as ChontaDJ, performing at the Jodhpur RIFF roots music festival last month. (Jodhpur RIFF)
Published on Nov 08, 2023 10:15 pm IST

Pimpri-Chinchwad earns spot amongst 15 urban innovation finalists

Pimpri-Chinchwad being the only Indian city making the cut the prestigious sixth Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation nomination (HT FILE PHOTO)
Updated on Sept 16, 2023 11:46 pm IST

Sri Lanka crisis: Govt says Prez Rajapaksa won't resign as protests continue

People hold placards as they demand Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign in Colombo on Wednesday.
Published on Apr 06, 2022 10:23 pm IST

'Havana syndrome' in US embassies: What do we know?

Nausea, headaches and loss of orientation are typical symptoms of the mysterious syndrome.
Published on Oct 14, 2021 10:45 pm IST

Gardening helps kidney patients in Colombian hospital

A patient visiting the hospital thrice a week got treatment for his dysfunctional kidneys has become familiar with the place and it feels like his second home.
Published on Dec 16, 2020 07:36 pm IST

Hummingbird sanctuary provides a break from stresses of Bogota city life

The image shows a hummingbird. (Representative image)
Published on Nov 29, 2020 10:24 am IST

The agony of Colombia’s quarantined sex workers

Coronavirus has infected almost 3,500 Colombians and killed more than 150.
Updated on Apr 19, 2020 11:41 am IST

Sex toy sales take off amid Colombia’s coronavirus quarantine

Sex toys could help people keep their spirits up during long isolation.
Updated on Apr 16, 2020 12:19 pm IST

Resurgent Capital: In and around Bogota, Columbia

Updated on May 30, 2019 01:37 pm IST

Colombian man who sexually assaulted 276 kids, sold videos to paedophile, jailed for 60 years

Juan Carloz Sanchez picked up his victims in shopping centres in the Caribbean coastal town of Barranquilla, offering them money to accompany him to places where he attacked them, sharing the footage on the internet.
Updated on Feb 14, 2019 02:37 pm IST

Death toll in Colombia bombing rises to 21 as threats linger

Death toll in Colombia bombing rises to 21 . (Representational Image)
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 05:23 pm IST

5 killed, 10 injured in car bombing at police academy in Colombia’s Bogota, says mayor

Bogota’s mayor says at least five people have been killed and another 10 injured in a car bombing at a police academy in Colombia’s capital.
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 07:00 am IST

Australian firebrand Bernard Tomic wins first title in three years

Bernard Tomic of Australia reacts after winning his men's singles match against Fabio Fognini.
Updated on Sept 30, 2018 06:26 pm IST

Venezuela hit by 7.3 magnitude earthquake, damage limited

Evacuated people wait on a street in the surrounding area of a skyscraper known as the "Tower of David" after an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela August 21, 2018.
Updated on Aug 22, 2018 08:00 am IST

Colombian police’s drug dog has a $7,000-bounty on its head

Drug dog Sombra, has helped detect more than 2,000 kilos of cocaine hidden in suitcases, boats and large shipments of fruit, sits outside the police station in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, July 26, 2018.
Published on Aug 03, 2018 06:39 pm IST

Fearless Sombra, the cocaine-sniffing bane of Colombian drug traffickers

In 2016, Sombra sniffed out 2.9 tons of cocaine in a container full of bananas at the Uraba port, bound for Antwerp in Belgium. A year later, she repeated the trick, detecting a 1.1-ton coke cache hidden in fruit pulp in a warehouse in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta.
Published on Aug 03, 2018 05:37 pm IST