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Indian Air Force (IAF) has officially announced its intention to procure about 100 additional Made-in-India LCA Mark 1A fighter jets. During his visit to Spain, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, the Chief of the Indian Air Force, made this announcement while receiving the first C-295 transport aircraft. Speaking to ANI, he underscored the pivotal role of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) in replacing the aging MiG-series fleet, which includes the MiG-21, MiG-23, and MiG-27 aircraft. «With the retirement of these aging aircraft, it is imperative that we bolster our inventory with LCA class aircraft.

Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world's richest artists, has died at 91. Heralded as South America's answer to Picasso, Botero also tackled violence and political topics, including Colombia's internal conflicts, as well as portraying daily life. His works have featured in exhibitions across the world. His canvases and sculptures sell for more than $2 million each, according to Sotheby's. The artist's bodacious subjects were portrayed in everyday situations — a corpulent naked woman lounging on a bed or a stout man riding a humorously out-sized horse — but served the artist's more serious goal of transporting the reader to what he called a «superlative dimension», where commonplace situations took on exaggerated proportions. Despite the comic plumpness of many of his creations, the artist never shied away from serious subject matter — his series of paintings about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal generated discussion across the art world. «Fernando Botero has died, the painter of our traditions and defects, the painter of our virtues.

Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday urged the business community in Spain to invest in Bengal, referring to “skill” as the biggest “game changer” of the state and showcased tourism, manufacturing as potential investment sectors. She also highlighted good infrastructure, road and port connectivity, power availability and land bank in Bengal. The West Bengal government organized a business summit at Madrid in Spain. “Skill is the game changer in Bengal.

Luis Rubiales, the former head of Spain's Soccer Federation, is grappling with a restraining order after being accused of sexual assault for an alleged non-consensual kiss with Spanish Women’s National Team star Jenni Hermoso following the club’s FIFA World Cup victory last month, as reported by the BBC and ESPN.

QUITO (Reuters) — The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) has approved three credits for Ecuador worth a total of $488 million, part of which will help the next government with funding, the Economy and Finance Ministry said on Friday.

Maintaining interest rates at 4% for a prolonged period may be sufficient to tame inflation, two European Central Bank officials said a day after borrowing costs were raised for what markets and economists think was the last time.

Fantasy sports platform GameOn has partnered with the Spanish football league LALIGA to develop Web3 games for players in the US and Canada.

₹45 crore when released in India this July. Viewership of international content on over-the-top (OTT) video streaming platforms in India has nearly doubled in 2022 as audiences took to original and dubbed versions of English, Turkish, Spanish and Korean shows and films. Viewers have become increasingly language-agnostic owing to the dubbing and subtitling of international shows popular for high-quality storytelling and production, said streaming services firms.

A post shared by Mamata Banerjee (@mamataofficial) In another video, the 68 year-old TMC supremo was also seen playing the accordion which she captioned, “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."A post shared by Mamata Banerjee (@mamataofficial) She also met Former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly. A photograph of Ganguly sitting to Banerjee in Spain’s Madrid was shared by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on social media 'X'. The TMC also updated that the West Bengal government and Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (LALIGA) have entered a Memorandum of Understanding to elevate the game through mutual collaborations between India and Spain.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally made the move to expand his metaverse Horizon Worlds from virtual reality headsets to people's smartphones and computers.

Regional health officials in France say a 32-year-old woman is dead and a dozen people have been hospitalized after an apparent botulism outbreak

FIFA Best Men's Coach Award 2023? The nominations for the coach award have been unveiled with Pep Guardiola leading the shortlist. Others who have made it to the shortlist include Barcelona boss Xavi Hernandez, who won the league title in his first full season as in-charge of the club. AC Milan manager Simone Inzaghi, former Napoli boss Luciano Spalletti and Ange Postecoglou are on the shortlist. Ange Postecoglou won a historic treble with Celtic last season and is now managing Tottenham. Pep Guardiola made history last season when he became the first man to win trebles. He won trophies with two different clubs after guiding Manchester City to success at home and abroad. The Manchester City manager also made it to the shortlist last year but finished behind Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni, who took away the top prize after winning the World Cup in Qatar.

The Lancet' will be published in Hindi for the first time, it was announced here on Thursday, a development that coincided with 'Hindi Diwas'.Madhya Pradesh Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang said 'The Lancet Regional Health — Southeast Asia' — will be translated into Hindi in coordination with experts from the Bhopal-based Gandhi Medical College (GMC) and MP directorate of medical education (MP-DME), and will be published bi-monthly. The British peer-reviewed general medical journal in its 200th year of publication. «This is for the first time that any Lancet publication is being brought out in Hindi. It is an opportunity to make science and content more accessible and inclusive to researchers and students,» The Lancet's deputy publishing director, Fiona Macnab, told reporters at GMC. Currently, The Lancet publications are available in Spanish and Portuguese besides English, she added. Minister Sarang said the BJP government in MP is promoting Hindi in medical education for students not comfortable with English and described the development as a 'landmark' event. Announcing a tie-up with the leading global health journal, the minister said, «The venture with The Lancet is a landmark development aimed at promoting Hindi in medical education.» «The Lancet Regional Health — Southeast Asia — will be translated into Hindi in coordination with experts from the GMC and Madhya Pradesh directorate medical education (MP-DME),» he added. Last year, MP-DME translated the first year MBBS course in Hindi.

Spain's Women's World Cup winning coach Jorge Vilda was left off the short-list of nominees for the annual FIFA awards announced Thursday, a week after he was fired following a global uproar in the wake of the final. Vilda was not among five candidates for the Best Women's Coach Award for 2023, which did include England coach Sarina Wiegman, whose team lost the final to Spain. The candidates were picked by a FIFA-appointed expert panel that included United States great Mia Hamm. Spain forward Jenni Hermoso, who was kissed by now-disgraced and ousted Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales after the final, is one of four Spain players who are among the 16 candidates for the women's player of the year award.

Manchester United signed World Cup winner Irene Guerrero a few hours before the WSL transfer deadline came to an end. Atletico Madrid midfielder Irene Guerrero was a part of the Spain squad that lifted the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup last month in a nail-biting final against England. She made three substitute appearances for the world champions in the tournament. Before Atletico Madrid, Guerrero had played for Real Betis and Levante. Manchester United Women have officially announced the deal and welcomed Irene.

The operator of a luxury cruise ship that ran aground in Greenland with 206 people on board said Thursday that the MV Ocean Explorer was “successfully” pulled free by a fisheries research vessel at high tide

Spain has recorded its third hottest summer since official records began 62 years ago

₹21,935 crore, the purchase will help refurbish the Indian Air Force’s aging Avro-748 transport fleet. Here’s why it matters In September 2021, India signed a deal with aviation giant Airbus for 56 such C295 transport aircraft. Under the terms of the deal, India would receive 16 aircraft assembled in Spain, while the remaining 40 would be assembled in India.

cruise ship carrying 206 people that ran aground in the world's northernmost national park in Greenland has failed after trying to use the high tide, authorities said. It was the third attempt to free the MV Ocean Explorer.

Picasso masterpiece, the late Spanish painter's "Femme a la montre" from 1932, is expected to fetch at least $120 million, Sotheby's announced Wednesday. The painting, which depicts Picasso's mistress wearing a watch, will be sold as part of a two-day auction of late New Yorker Emily Fisher Landau's prestigious collection. Other works up for sale include pieces by Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. Fisher Landau, a longtime board member of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and a renowned art patron and collector, passed away in March at age 102. Sotheby's said in a statement that around 120 pieces from her collection would be for sale and «estimated to bring well over $400 million» in total, with «Femme a la montre» making up a significant portion.