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73 die in Kolkata (Calcutta) hospital blaze

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:04:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – At least 73 people have died in a hospital fire in south Kolcata (Calcutta), India, according to initial reports from India’s media, and 75 people were rescued. The fire at Amri Hospital broke out in the early hours of the morning Friday 9 December. The fire department says, according to the Times [...]

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Swiss-Indian trade shows “fulgarant” growth, says Bern

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:49:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Trade between India and Switzerland, currently negotiating a bilateral free trade treaty, has grown at a “fulgerant” rate in the past 20 years, the Swiss Customs Office says. Exports from Switzerland to India grew by 18 percent in the first nine months of 2011 and have now crossed the threshold of CHF3 [...]

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Switzerland, India double taxation treaty enters into force

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:34:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss and Indian governments Monday 10 October announced that their revised double taxation treaty enters into force today. The treaty, revised to accommodate OECD international standards, is being met in India with hope that this will pave the “way for obtaining data on black money stashed there,” says the Economic Times. [...]

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India, Switzerland strengthen ties, sign fiscal agreement

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:16:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil’s two-day visit to Switzerland that began Monday has already resulted in a number of initiatives, including a request by India for Switzerland’s support for an Indian seat on the UN Security Council as well as a fiscal agreement, and 11 new joint scientific research programmes. Switzerland is [...]

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11 die, scores injured as Bangladesh group claims Delhi court bomb

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:41:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Eleven people are dead and at least 76 injured following the explosion of a bomb in Delhi, India Wednesday 7 September. HuJI, a Bangladeshi terrorist group earlier “in an email demanded that Afzal Guru’s death sentence should be repealed immediately else the group would target major high courts and the Supreme Court”, [...]

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European visitors to Switzerland down in July, but Chinese up 61%

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:27:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – July 2011 was not the disaster for Swiss tourism that some people expected, given the high Swiss franc, but European visitors’ overnight stays were down by 3.5 percent compared to July 2010, with foreigners’ overnight stays down 4 percent. Two of Switzerland’s traditionally largest groups of European visitors, Germans and the British, [...]

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Cricket: England smash India 4-0

Nicholas Bates — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:20:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LONDON, ENGLAND – Graeme Swann wrapped up the final day of the fourth test by taking six wickets at the Oval Monday 22 August. England won by an innings and eight runs to take one of the most one-sided series of recent years. England moved into top place in the test rankings while India slipped [...]

Swiss, German foreign ministers confirm tax deal soon

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:11:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Swiss left out of G20 meeting ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland and Germany’s foreign ministers Sunday confirmed media reports that an agreement will shortly be announced on a tax deal. The Swiss Foreign Affairs Department said in a statement that Swiss President and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle “both praised the [...]

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Mumbai faced with new terrorist attacks, with 3 on Wednesday

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:17:01 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Any sense of normality in Mumbai, India, disappeared Wednesday as terrorist attacks returned to the city that was traumatized by three days of attacks in 2008 that killed 166 people. Three separate attacks have taken at least 21 lives and injured more than 100 people, in Zaveri Bazaar, the Opera House business [...]

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Men donate more blood than women, in richer countries donors are older

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:05:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The jet d’eau, Geneva’s famous water fountain, ran red 14 June to mark World Blood Donor day, but beyond the colourful display and other events, The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva marked the day by releasing new global data which shows that 70 percent of volunteer, unpaid blood donors are men. [...]

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