The "Fidel Castro Centenary" Football Cup was opened today with the presence of M. A. Baby, Secretary General of the Communist Party of India, and Juan Carlos Marsan, Cuban Ambassador to India.

There is luminosity on every August 13th that can never be extinguished, not even with all the blockades in the world, for it is the date of the happy birthday of the undefeated leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, 99 years ago.

Workers from different sectors are making progress on the installation of the La Sabana photovoltaic solar park in the western province of Mayabeque, as part of efforts to strengthen the National Electric System.

The use of containers for housing construction offers a new solution to the housing problem in the eastern province of Las Tunas.

The Center for International Policy Research (CIPI by its Spanish acronym) presented the 14th issue of the Cuadernos de Nuestra America (Notebooks of Our America) magazine, featuring articles by Cuban and Chinese, according to Granma newspaper .

Five Chinese Yutong buses, powered by biomethane, will soon be operating in the communities of the western Matanzas municipality of Marti, Cubadebate reported.

All of Cuba's eastern provinces have at least one train connecting them to another territory in the region, confirmed Ana Delma Perez Acosta, general director of the Eastern Railway Company (EFO by its Spanish acronym), according to the Granma newspaper.

Regardless of creed and united around one goal―the end of the blockade―the Jacksonville branch of the US "Hands Off Cuba" Committee was born, the first in Florida's most populous city.

The Engineering Construction Company 17 (INGECO) is restoring the national highway network in the eastern province of Holguin, with the goal of facilitating passenger and freight transportation via direct routes.

The Institute of Meteorology's Forecast Center announced the formation of Tropical Storm Dexter in the low pressure area located over the western Atlantic Ocean, east of North Carolina, US.

Hua Xin, Asian nation's ambassador to Cuba, described the launch of the Cuadernos de Nuestra America (Notebooks of Our America) magazine, a special edition commemorating 65 years of bilateral relations, as a demonstration of the theoretical crystallization of the special friendship between China and Cuba.

Government Commission for Attention to Demographic Dynamics analyzed the Maternal and Child Program and early childhood centers, newspaper Granma reported.

Cuba is hosting Breastfeeding Week starting this Friday, which will run until August 7, Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) told the newspaper Granma.

A group of 118 irregular migrants (96 men and 22 women) returned to Cuba on Thursday by air from the United States through Jose Marti International Airport, in accordance with bilateral migration agreements.

A Cuban delegation will attend the 32nd Congress of the International Society of Sugarcane Technicians (ISSCT), to be held August 22-31in Cali, Colombia.