India-Africa Project Partnership: 9th CII- EXIM BANK Conclave March 17 - 19, New Delhi

India in Africa


Indian engineering major BHEL looks at South African market for its boilers

India's Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) is looking at South Africa for marketing its circulating fluidized bed combustion (CFBC) boilers, needed for power and industrial applications.

Indian bookstore in Morocco promotes Indian literature
By Madhusree Chatterjee

India is writing a new literary chapter in Marrakesh with a boutique bookstore, "Kathakali", which is opening up the world of South Asian, Indian and world literature to Moroccan readers.

Bangalore's Karuturi to fence farms half the size of Addis
By: Groum Abate

 Indian firm Karuturi Global, the world's largest rose producer, will construct embankments in Ethiopia around 25,000 hectares of farmland, half the size of this capital city, at a cost of $15 million after reports of massive losses due to flooding.

Rhythm under the African sky
By:Shombit Sengupta

 From California came my sister-in-law’s invitation for a family get-together under the African sky. My in-laws’ families, composed of multiple nationalities—Indian, American, Canadian, French — were getting ready to celebrate her 20th marriage anniversary amidst nature and animal beauty.

Mahindra & Mahindra eyes African market
By Rohit Vaid

In an effort to improve overseas sales, automobile major Mahindra & Mahindra said it will launch its premium sports utility vehicle (SUV) -- XUV500 - in South Africa, just a day after introducing the car in India.

 

Indian firm to invest $250 mn in knowledge, food processing hubs in East Africa

An Indian company has signed a pact with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) to invest $250 million for a knowledge hub and an integrated food park in this East African country, once associated with its fratricidal conflict that claimed nearly a million lives.

India-Africa ties in 'transformational phase'

India's ties with Africa are in a "transformational phase" and its efforts are radically different from what any other country is doing in the vast and quickly changing continent, a senior official said here.

India to set up 19 training institutes in Africa
By Manish Chand

A foreign trade institute in Uganda and a diamond centre in Botswana are amongst the 19 training institutes that India will set up across Africa in the next two years.

Indian music is popular in South Africa: Envoy

Indian music is quite popular in South Africa, according to the Indian envoy Virendra Gupta, who feels music is one of the priority areas in the relations between the two nations.

India gifts 25 buses to Liberia
By Alaskai Moore Johnson

India has donated some 25 buses to Liberia to transport students to and from the only institution of higher learning in the West African nation, as also general commuters in and around capital Monrovia.