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09 September 2013

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SPOTLIGHT

 

India, Africa to enhance cooperation, adopt action plan

 

India is setting up 80 new capacity-building institutions in African countries and building six institutes of excellence as part of an action plan for enhanced cooperation with the 54-nation continent that is now seen as one of the world's growth centres, a senior Indian official said...

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'Rich nations must not harm developing economies'

 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in St Petersburg, Russia to join other leaders at the 8th G20 Summit and find ways to tackle the challenges faced by the global economy, especially the turmoil in currency markets, and ask rich nations not to pursue policies that harm the growth prospects of emerging economies...

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CONVERSATION

 

India increasing engagement with West Africa: Burkina Faso minister

 

Most of the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have established their embassies in New Delhi, reflecting India's growing engagement with a predominantly Francophone part of Africa...

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NEWS

 

South Africa tour tangle to be sorted at ICC meet

 

The uncertainty over the South Africa tour is likely to be sorted out in Dubai when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Patel meets Cricket South Africa (CSA) chief executive Haroon Lorgat on the sidelines of the International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executives' meeting slated for Sep 16-17...

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Injured captain stops ship at Togo, gets arrested

 

An Indian merchant ship captain and two of his crew members have been languishing in a Togo jail for over a month. The captain, Sunil James, had stopped at Togo to report about pirates when he along with two of his staff got detained by local authorities for allegedly conniving with pirates...

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Thanks for praying for granddad: Mandela's granddaughter

 

My grandfather has come home and thank you everyone for your prayers," ailing former South African president Nelson Mandela's granddaughter Ndileka said in Durban...

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INDIA AFRICA COOPERATION

 

Over 200 Africans seek scholarships in India

 

Over 200 African students have applied for scholarships in different Indian institutions for agriculture courses since April this year, out of which 122 have already been selected, an official data showed...

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India-Africa food processing cluster to come up in 3 years

 

India will help set up a food processing cluster in a African country that will have the capacity to process nearly 2,500,000 tons of food material per year...

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South Sudan oil exports to continue through Sudan

 

The risk of disruption of oil supplies to India from South Sudan has been averted with an agreement reached between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir in Khartoum...

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Indian cinema theme of first Seychelles India Day

 

Indian cinema will be the theme of the first Seychelles India Day that will be celebrated in this picturesque Indian Ocean archipelago of 115 islands during Oct 4-6...

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SAIFTA -- a multipurpose platform

 

Durban is set to host the maiden edition of SAIFTA, a coming together of the Indian and South African film and TV on Friday. Sadha Naidoo, chairperson of Durban Tourism, said the initiative is to boost tourism and encourage Indian film productions in South Africa...

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PANORAMA

 

Dispatches from an unfinished African revolution

 

For as long as anyone remembered, the border was a dusty track of red sun-baked earth that separated the tidy communal lands in Mhondoro, where the Shona people grew maize, from the fenced farms and private hunting reserves where white farmers grew tobacco and foreign tourists shot antelope...

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CINEMA

 

Indian director willing to shoot in scenic South Africa

 

He has visited the city for the first time and is yet to explore it, but Karan Johar, one of the top filmmakers in Bollywood, says he is open to shoot in South Africa, which offers a great combination of...

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