http://www.citybengaluru.com Latest news from Bangalore, India and the World Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:14:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuban-makes-statues-using-tobacco-leaves/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuban-makes-statues-using-tobacco-leaves/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:26:19 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81386 Havana, Feb 6 (IANS) A Cuban sculptor uses tobacco leaves to create wonderful pieces of art, and has made life-size as well as miniature sculptures of Winston Churchill, Che Guevara, John F. Kennedy, Charles Chaplin, Luciano Pavarotti and Arnold Schwarzenegger. With his unique work, Janio Nunez Leal has pieces in many private collections around the [...]

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]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuba-producing-sugar-with-new-technology/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/socialism-cant-resolve-all-ills-fidel-castro/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/socialism-cant-resolve-all-ills-fidel-castro/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:23:42 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81221 Havana, Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Fidel Castro says he now realises it was a mistake to think that socialism can resolve all economic problems. Castro made the candid admission during the release of a two-volume memoir here, official media said Saturday. The leader of the Cuban Revolution, 85, who left office in 2006 due to an [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/socialism-cant-resolve-all-ills-fidel-castro/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/fidel-castro-releases-two-volume-memoir/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/fidel-castro-releases-two-volume-memoir/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:34:42 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81192 Havana, Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Former Cuban President Fidel Castro presented a two-volume memoir at a public ceremony in Havana, where he referred to the mistake of believing that with socialism all economic problems are solved, official media said Saturday. The leader of the Cuban Revolution, 85, who left office in 2006 due to an illness, [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/fidel-castro-releases-two-volume-memoir/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuban-singer-songwriter-dies/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuban-singer-songwriter-dies/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:07:08 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80752 Havana, Feb 3 (IANS/EFE) Singer-songwriter Sara Gonzalez, one of the original voices of the New Cuban Song Movement, has died in Havana, official media reported. She was 60. The artist revealed several months ago that she had undergone a colon operation, the official web site Cubadebate noted. Also, Cubadebate reported that Gonzalez had bade farewell [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuban-singer-songwriter-dies/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/reggaeton-duo-film-documentary-in-cuba/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/reggaeton-duo-film-documentary-in-cuba/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:55:09 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79990 Havana, Jan 31 (IANS/EFE) Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Calle 13 is currently filming a documentary in Cuba, official media said Monday, citing band member Rene Perez, a.k.a. “Residente”. “We’re filming a big documentary about C-13 in Cuba,” said Perez on his Twitter account, according to a report published on the government Web page Cubadebate. Perez [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/reggaeton-duo-film-documentary-in-cuba/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/vatican-loans-cuba-historic-artefact/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/vatican-loans-cuba-historic-artefact/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:18:59 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79386 Havana, Jan 28 (IANS/EFE) The Vatican has loaned to Cuba “as a great exception” and for one year an artefact considered the most ancient example of indigenous Christian art in the New World, having once belonged to the chaplain of Christopher Columbus. The piece is a lectern for Mass used by Columbus’ chaplain on the [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/vatican-loans-cuba-historic-artefact/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuba-welcomed-over-27-mn-tourists-in-2011/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuba-welcomed-over-27-mn-tourists-in-2011/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:50:47 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=78023 Havana, Jan 22 (IANS/EFE) Cuba greeted more than 2.7 million tourists in 2011, a figure cited by official media and said to set a record for the sector, the island’s second biggest source of revenue in foreign currencies. Cuba’s National Statistics Office, or ONE, said that 2,716,317 foreign visitors landed on the island last year. [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuba-welcomed-over-27-mn-tourists-in-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/2-million-cuban-students-get-trained-in-arts/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/2-million-cuban-students-get-trained-in-arts/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:28:20 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=77158 Havana, Jan 18 (IANS) Over two million school students in Cuba are receiving training in arts such as drama, music and painting as part of an initiative launched by the country’s education authorities, the Prensa Latina news agency reported. Arley Abreu, a senior official responsible for introducing students to cultural projects, told the Juvented Rebelde [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/2-million-cuban-students-get-trained-in-arts/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cubans-flock-to-apply-for-new-housing-subsidy/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cubans-flock-to-apply-for-new-housing-subsidy/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:46:51 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=77140 Havana, Jan 18 (IANS/EFE) The Cuban government accepted more than 1,300 applications for subsidies to either repair or build homes on the first day the measure went into effect, official daily Juventud Rebelde said Tuesday. At least 4,900 people flocked Monday to the offices concerned to file their applications for subsidies, of which 1,339 were [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/cubans-flock-to-apply-for-new-housing-subsidy/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuba-tries-new-methods-to-obtain-energy/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuba-tries-new-methods-to-obtain-energy/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:00:08 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=76320 Havana, Jan 14 (IANS) Cuba is trying out physical, chemical and microbiological tests to obtain renewable energy from agricultural, livestock, industrial and forest waste, the Prensa Latina news agency reported. The tests are being carried out at the Centre for Biogas and Environmental Engineering in Sancti Spiritus province. According to preliminary studies, there are chances [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuba-tries-new-methods-to-obtain-energy/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/ahmadinejad-visits-cuba/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/ahmadinejad-visits-cuba/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:47:46 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=75800 Havana, Jan 12 (IANS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived here Wednesday on a one-day official visit. He was received by Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo at the airport, Xinhua reported. The Iranian president was expected to meet Cuban leader Raul Castro later during the day. He will give a speech at the Havana University before [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/ahmadinejad-visits-cuba/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cubans-immune-to-dozens-of-diseases/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cubans-immune-to-dozens-of-diseases/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:05:36 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=75197 Havana, Jan 9 (IANS) People in Cuba are immune to dozens of illness that kill millions of people in the rest of the world, health experts in the Communist-ruled nation have claimed. More than two dozen infectious diseases are controlled in Cuba, and of them at least 15 — including polio, malaria and neonatal tetanus [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/cubans-immune-to-dozens-of-diseases/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/2012-will-be-a-year-of-upheaval-cuban-priests/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/2012-will-be-a-year-of-upheaval-cuban-priests/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:47:34 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=74139 Havana, Jan 4 (IANS/EFE) Christian priests in Cuba who also follow the beliefs and traditions of African slaves have said 2012 will be a year of disturbances, clashes and great social, political and economic changes, which could lead to the present world dying and another being born. The Santeria priests’ prophecies said the year will [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/2012-will-be-a-year-of-upheaval-cuban-priests/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuban-teenaged-boy-is-a-soccer-prodigy/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/cuban-teenaged-boy-is-a-soccer-prodigy/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:27:32 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=73645 Havana, Jan 1 (IANS) A 15-year-old Cuban boy has set numerous national records in handling a football and playing tricks with it, Prensa Latina news agency reported. Christopher Emil Escobar from Artemisa city kicked a football 257 times in a minute while in a sitting position. Among the results achieved by Escobar were controlling the [...]

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