Peruvian parliamentarian team meets LS Speaker

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 18:47

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Tuesday appreciated Peru`s support to India`s bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.

At least 33 dead in Peru bus crash

Last Updated: Sunday, April 14, 2013, 09:37

At least 33 people died and 10 others have been injured after a bus plunged 200 metres (650 feet) down a ravine in northern Peru, police said.

Training for poll officials from abroad

Last Updated: Friday, April 12, 2013, 22:58

Election officials from 19 nations are participating in 2-week training programme organised by India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management of ECI.

Helicopter crashes in Peru, 13 feared dead

Last Updated: Monday, April 8, 2013, 08:58

A helicopter with 13 people aboard, headed to a Perenco oil production facility, crashed into a jungle in northeastern Peru Sunday, and there were no signs of survivors, the company said.

Taxis light up airstrip in Peru for medevac flight

Last Updated: Friday, April 5, 2013, 11:38

Their lights blaring in the night, hundreds of taxis lined an unlit airstrip in a jungle region of Peru so an emergency medevac plane could take off.

Peru bus crash kills 24

Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 08:25

At least 24 people, most of them miners, were killed and a similar number were injured when their bus plunged into a ravine in Peru.

Two new lizard species discovered in Peru

Last Updated: Sunday, March 24, 2013, 16:41

Scientists have discovered two new species of lizards, with colourful splotches of green and brown on their bodies, in the Peruvian rain forest.

Peru extradites runaway ex-judge to Israel

Last Updated: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 21:20

A former Israeli judge who fled to Peru after allegedly receiving bribes had to return to his native country finally.

Peru midfielder gets two-year doping ban

Last Updated: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 15:09

World football`s governing body FIFA has suspended Peru international midfielder Joel Sanchez until 2015 for testing positive to a banned substance.

5,000-year-old temple found in Peru

Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 15:14

A team of archaeologists discovered a temple and a hearth some 5,000 years old at the El Paraiso archaeological complex east of Lima.

Yale returns final lot of Machu Picchu items to Peru

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 11:25

Yale University returned to Peru the final lot of archaeological items from Machu Picchu that it agreed to hand over in an accord signed two years ago.