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Amit Panghal has ‘unfinished business’ ahead of World Championships final

Amit Panghal has reached Worlds final.

Updated on Sep 20, 2019, 9:11 PM IST

Twitter suspends accounts of Raul Castro, Cuban media outlets

Cuban Communist party leader Raul Castro

Updated on Sep 13, 2019, 4:03 PM IST

Rare bats get ‘manicures’ from scientists in Cuba. Here’s why

The rare Cuban greater funnel-eared bats are getting “manicures.”

Updated on Aug 31, 2019, 12:03 PM IST

Alleged 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo to go on trial in 2021: Report

Alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp will finally go on trial in 2021

Updated on Aug 31, 2019, 9:59 AM IST

Cuba falls in love with beards again - and it’s not about Fidel Castro

Cuba falls in love with beards again - and it’s not about Fidel Castro

Updated on Aug 22, 2019, 3:38 PM IST

In India on 60 years of Cuban revolution, Che’s daughter says world needs more people like him

Ernesto Che Guevara with VK Krishna Menon on July 3, 1959.

Updated on Jul 25, 2019, 9:53 AM IST

‘Something happened to their brains’: Expert on 40 US envoys who worked in Cuba

This image provided by the American Medical Association in July 2019 shows the differences between brain scans of patients, US diplomats who developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba, and a control group.

Updated on Jul 24, 2019, 10:35 AM IST

For Cubans, a day at the beach is no easy task

Like everything else in communist Cuba, beaches are a political issue.

Updated on Jul 22, 2019, 1:02 PM IST

Jeff Bezos’s father came from Cuba alone at 16 to live the ‘American dream’

Mike Bezos, father of the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, was just 16 when he boarded a flight in Cuba for Miami, a city in Florida, US.

Updated on May 18, 2019, 9:32 AM IST

HT Picks: The most interesting books of the week

A biography of a famous historian, a meditation on the role of medicine, and looking at how India has fared lately -- all that on HT’s list of good reads this week.

Updated on Apr 5, 2019, 6:37 PM IST

Cuba’s strongest tornado in nearly 80 years kills at least four

Residents of tornado-hit Regla neighbourhood stand in front of their destroyed house, in Havana, on January 28, 2019.

Updated on Jan 29, 2019, 9:34 AM IST

Singer Shilpa Rao shares her travel stories from Cuba, Morocco, Vietnam and more

Singer Shilpa Rao in Casablanca, Morocco. (Instagram)

Updated on Jan 11, 2019, 12:12 PM IST

Cuba around the world: 60 years of weapons and white coats

In this file photo taken on January 04, 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro (C) is seen shortly after toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista during the revolutionary triumph, in Cienfuegos, 04 January 1959.

Updated on Dec 28, 2018, 12:35 PM IST

Cuba to begin full internet access for mobile phones

Cuba announced Tuesday night that its citizens will be offered full internet access for mobile phones beginning this week.

Published on Dec 5, 2018, 8:40 AM IST

Bajrang Punia wins silver to become first Indian with two World Wrestling Championship medals

Bajrang Punia has had a great 2018 so far, having already won gold medals at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games.

Updated on Oct 22, 2018, 11:45 PM IST

Sweet endings in Juhu

Plush interiors and inviting colour scemes at B - Kitchen & Bar, Juhu

Updated on Aug 30, 2018, 4:00 PM IST

New travel destination, here’s why it’s the best time to visit Cuba

Travellers of all nationalities stand to reap certain rewards by going to Cuba this year.

Published on Jul 12, 2018, 2:06 PM IST

US fears of ‘mystery weapon’ revived by new China diplomat cases

US officials have privately raised questions about whether China, or Russia, might have separately or in tandem targeted the diplomats.

Updated on Jun 9, 2018, 7:54 PM IST

One of Cuba’s three air crash survivors dies in hospital

A rescue team member works at the wreckage of a Boeing 737 plane that crashed in the agricultural area of Boyeros, around 20 km (12 miles) south of Havana, shortly after taking off from Havana's main airport in Cuba, May 18, 2018. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Updated on May 22, 2018, 9:54 AM IST

I thought it was going to fall on my house, says witness who saw the Cuba plane crash

Rescue team members work on the wreckage of a Boeing 737 plane that crashed in the agricultural area of Boyeros, some 20 km south of Havana on Friday shortly after taking off from Havana's main airport in Cuba.

Updated on May 20, 2018, 10:59 PM IST

Over 100 dead after Boeing 737 crashes in Cuba, 3 survivors hospitalised

A rescue team member works at the wreckage of a Boeing 737 plane that crashed in the agricultural area of Boyeros, around 20 km (12 miles) south of Havana, shortly after taking off from Havana's main airport in Cuba, May 18, 2018.

Updated on May 19, 2018, 11:37 AM IST

As Castro exits, US and Cuba are still good frenemies

The Cuban government on April 18, 2018, selected the country’s 57-year-old first vice-president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, as the sole candidate to succeed President Raúl Castro

Published on Apr 21, 2018, 4:02 PM IST

Diaz-Canel is Cuba’s new president as Raul Castro steps aside

Cuban President Raul Castro (L) talks with First Vice-Presidente Miguel Diaz-Canel during the First Annual Session of the Cuban Parliament at the Convention Palace in Havana.

Updated on Apr 19, 2018, 7:18 PM IST

Miguel Diaz-Canel set to be Cuba’s first non-Castro president in six decades

Cuba's First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel stands in line before casting his vote during an election of candidates for the national and provincial assemblies, in Santa Clara, Cuba March 11, 2018.

Updated on Apr 18, 2018, 10:53 PM IST

John F Kennedy’s ‘victory map’ of Cuba auctioned for over $138,000

File photo taken on October 24, 1962 shows then US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signing the order of naval blockade of Cuba at the White House in Washington, DC, during the Cuban missiles crisis.

Updated on Apr 15, 2018, 3:07 PM IST

Pay a local to plan your trip? This new service may change travel bookings forever

The service combines authentic local recommendations, convenient online booking and the old-school guidance of a travel agent.

Updated on Apr 5, 2018, 2:15 PM IST

Flying high: Cuban YouTubers dream big despite poor internet access

Young Cuban YouTubers Frank Camallerys and Emma Lopez.

Updated on Mar 14, 2018, 12:49 PM IST

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