https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A first case of the Covid-19 variant contributing to the exploding outbreak in India has been detected in Switzerland, the public health authority said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20210424/india-covid-variant-found-in-switzerland-health-authority Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:10:32 +0200 india-covid-variant-found-in-switzerland-health-authority Diwali is the five-day festival of lights, celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains across the world. Here’s your guide to where festival events will take place across Switzerland. https://www.thelocal.ch/20191022/where-to-celebrate-diwali-in-switzerland Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:32:36 +0200 where-to-celebrate-diwali-in-switzerland When Ashley Arthingal left India for the very first time to study in Lausanne for a year, he felt like a visitor from another planet. Here he reveals what has surprised him most about his time as an international student in Switzerland. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190108/for-indians-the-silence-in-switzerland-can-be-deafening Tue, 08 Jan 2019 22:00:19 +0100 for-indians-the-silence-in-switzerland-can-be-deafening A Swiss tourist has been left with a fractured skull after he and his girlfriend were attacked near the Taj Mahal during a holiday in India, police and media reports said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171026/swiss-couple-suffer-brutal-attack-in-india Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:10:45 +0200 swiss-couple-suffer-brutal-attack-in-india Customs officials in India have fined a priest working in a parish in Switzerland for hiding three gold ingots disguised as chocolate bars in his baggage, Indian media reported. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170125/priest-disguised-gold-bars-as-swiss-chocolate-to-evade-customs Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:21:34 +0100 priest-disguised-gold-bars-as-swiss-chocolate-to-evade-customs Nestlé's hugely popular Maggi noodles returned on Monday to shelves in India five months after the government banned them over lead levels, in one of the biggest crises to hit the Swiss food giant. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151109/netsls-maggi-noodles-return-to-indian-shelves Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:47:39 +0100 netsls-maggi-noodles-return-to-indian-shelves Nestlé chief Paul Bulcke said on Wednesday that he wanted to see its hugely popular Maggi brand of instant noodles back on the Indian market as soon as possible after it was banned over a health scare. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150617/nestls-chief-bulcke-says-maggi-noodles-safe Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:56:23 +0200 nestls-chief-bulcke-says-maggi-noodles-safe A long-delayed free trade deal between India and Switzerland is not likely to be signed soon, a senior Swiss official said on Thursday, with differences on intellectual property rights and data protection still unresolved. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150430/trade-deal-between-switzerland-and-india-stalls Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:43:33 +0200 trade-deal-between-switzerland-and-india-stalls A Swiss tourist died of swine flu on Thursday while visiting India, a local health official said, as the country grapples with an outbreak that has killed more than 400 people since the start of 2015. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150212/swiss-tourist-dies-of-swine-flu-in-india Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:11:00 +0100 swiss-tourist-dies-of-swine-flu-in-india Authorities in India arrested a 24-year-old Geneva man on Monday after he attended a memorial for a communist activist in Kerala. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140730/swiss-man-arrested-in-india-over-maoist-links Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:19:00 +0200 swiss-man-arrested-in-india-over-maoist-links Leading Indian drug company Biocon on Friday rejected allegations by Novartis that it infringed on the Swiss pharmaceutical giant's patent for its blockbuster diabetes drug Galvus. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140404/indian-drug-rival-denies-novartis-patent-charges-2 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:16:39 +0200 indian-drug-rival-denies-novartis-patent-charges-2 Six men accused in the gang-rape and robbery of a 39-year-old Swiss woman cyclist holidaying in India were sentenced to life terms Saturday by a fast-track Indian court. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130721/india-jails-six-men-in-swiss-gang-rape-case Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:53:00 +0200 india-jails-six-men-in-swiss-gang-rape-case The Swiss chief prosecutor's office has closed a probe of an Indian-born telecoms baron who was accused of fraud in a scheme that sold pre-paid phone cards but allegedly cheated users out of call time. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130418/swiss-close-probe-of-sikhs-phone-card-scam Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:18:31 +0200 swiss-close-probe-of-sikhs-phone-card-scam An Indian court was fully justified to reject a patent bid by Swiss drug giant Novartis last week, India's trade and industry minister said in Geneva on Monday, defending the country's generic drug business. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130408/indian-minister-defends-novartis-drug-ruling Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:45:00 +0200 indian-minister-defends-novartis-drug-ruling India's Supreme Court rejected on Monday a patent bid by Swiss drug giant Novartis, in a landmark ruling that activists say will protect access to cheap generic versions of drugs in developing nations. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130401/indias-top-court-backs-generics-in-swiss-drugs-firm-ruling Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:17:00 +0200 indias-top-court-backs-generics-in-swiss-drugs-firm-ruling Six men appeared in court on Monday over the gang-rape and robbery of a Swiss woman on a cycling holiday in India, an assault that has rekindled alarm about the safety of tourists and rising sex crimes. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130318/four-charged-with-swiss-womans-rape Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:07:00 +0100 four-charged-with-swiss-womans-rape Police in India say they have arrested a group of farmers in their 20s who confessed to gang-raping a Swiss cyclist, the latest in a series of shocking sex crimes in the country. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130317/indian-police-arrest-men-over-swiss-gang-rape Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:38:00 +0100 indian-police-arrest-men-over-swiss-gang-rape A Swiss female tourist was gang-raped in central India in front of her husband, police said on Saturday, renewing the focus on the issue of sexual violence against women in the south Asian nation. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130317/swiss-tourist-gang-raped-in-india Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:34:00 +0100 swiss-tourist-gang-raped-in-india India's former Olympics chief pleaded not guilty in court on Monday to an array of corruption charges related to his handling of the chaotic Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130204/swatch-linked-to-indian-sport-scandal Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:46:00 +0100 swatch-linked-to-indian-sport-scandal A 65-year-old woman from the canton of Zurich was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in jail for abducting her severely disabled husband to India and abandoning him there, where he died, to save costs for his care. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121219/woman-jailed-four-years-for-kidnapping-husband Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:16:29 +0100 woman-jailed-four-years-for-kidnapping-husband