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SPOTLIGHT
India partners development across the world
It is one of the largest such knowledge transfer and development assistance programmes in the world that has helped India, a developing country itself, share its expertise with others. In th..
India in Africa
India reschedules Sudan Lines of Credit of over $0.5 bn
India has agreed to reschedule its existing Lines of Credit (LoC) to Sudan totalling $566.9 million. &nb..
Africa in India
India and US partner to help improve agriculture in Africa
India and the US, as part of their broader global partnership, Tuesday launched the second training prog...
Panorama
Learning world cuisines through culinary clubs
As the fragrance of masala-fried prawns wafts through the room, a discerning audience diligently takes quick n..
Conversation/Comment
Nehru park, Gandhi hospital soon in Khartoum
Sudan, the north African country Indian troops fought to liberate during World War II, will soon get a park and a hospital named after Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi in its capital Khartoum, the country's envoy here has said, adding that an Indian bank should quickly be opened in his country to boost trade.
India-Africa Co-operation
Cinema/Fashion
Bollywood craze grips Ethiopian youth
Bollywood craze appears to have gripped Ethiopian youth. They are willing to sit through a usually three-hour-long movie at a shanty-house with only an unskilled translator as their guide to a language they do not understand.
Agriculture/Energy
Green boon: Fast-growing trees help save forests
They look like normal eucalyptus trees up to 65 feet tall with a trunk girth of about 19 cm and towering over their peers in an evaluation trial on the foothills of Himalayas here. They are hybrids, progenies of two high-growth species of eucalyptus paren..
Health/Education
Indian-American doctors to hold healthcare meet in India
An influential body of Indian-American physicians plans to hold a healthcare summit aimed at bringing innovative, efficient and cost effective world-class healthcare solutions to India in Ahmedabad in January next year.
Business/Industry
'India in regional trading bloc is win-win for all'
Singapore Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam said India and the 10-member ASEAN will ink the free trade pact on services and investment in August that would help achieve the $100 billion trade target and also pave the way for India's participation in the Regio..
IT/Technology
E-surveillance to save Indian tigers
Worried over increasing tiger deaths each year and many due to poaching and poisoning, India plans to start round-the-clock electronic surveillance of some of the tiger habitats using high definition cameras.
Culture/Tourism
Trinidad to be first host of World Ramleela Council
Ramleela, the enduring saga of Hindu god Rama, his trials and tribulations and his final triumph that provides the climax for the annual Dussehra festival, is set for a major revival among the Indian diaspora with Trinidad & Tobago being selected as t..
