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16 September 2013

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SPOTLIGHT

 

India will respond to Liberia's growth needs: President

 

India's development partnership with Liberia will respond to the western African nation's requirements as it chooses its priorities, President Pranab Mukherjee told visiting Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf here.  ...

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Liberian President Sirleaf given Indira Gandhi Prize

 

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in New Delhi, with India honouring her for being "an example and an inspiration to many women in Africa and beyond".  ...

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NEWS

 

India, Lesotho discuss defence, security cooperation

 

Defence and security cooperation and the lines of credit offered by India topped the agenda during talks between India and Lesotho held in the landlocked southern African nation.  ...

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Death for gang-rapists, India applauds

 

A judge took just a few minutes to sentence four men to death for the pitiless gang-rape of a young woman in Delhi last December resulting in her death, a verdict that was applauded across the nation....

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CONVERSATION

 

Indians are always welcome in Africa: AU official

 

Africa is seeking India's technical support and experience  as it moves towards building a contemporary continent, a top African Union (AU) official has said, saying more Indians should visit Africa and invest in Africa....

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INDIA AFRICA COOPERATION

 

India extends $144 mn line of credit to Liberia

 

India extended a Line of Credit of $144 million to Liberia to fund a power transmission and distribution project in the west African nation during talks between visiting Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here....

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Indian-aided cotton ginning unit inaugurated in Malawi

 

A cotton ginning unit,constructed with Indian aid, was inaugurated in Ngabu in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeast Africa that exports raw cotton....

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Indian women peacekeepers inspire Liberian women

 

An all-women police unit provided by India, as part of a UN peacekeeping force, inspired many Liberian women to join the West African nation's police and security services.  ...

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Solar system

 

In a sequence early in Yasmin Kidwai’s new documentary No Problem! Six Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas , we are introduced to a group of African women (from Malawi, Tanzania, South Sudan and other countries) who have just arrived in India, and are going to be in Tilonia, Rajasthan, for the next six months. It is going to be a difficult six months, for they know no Hindi, and very little English. But they are unfazed. By the end of their stay, they have more than a working knowledge of Hindi, and the power to illuminate their houses and villages back home....

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PANORAMA

 

The women behind Sirleaf

 

Liberia’s transformation rested on its female micro-entrepreneurs and has lessons for other economies  ...

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IT/TECHNOLOGY

 

The lure of Bangalore as startup city of India

 

Pallav Nadhani,who founded the charting company FusionCharts in Kolkata in 2002,shifted to Bangalore in June 2011.He found the work ethic in Kolkata poor: People were not aggressive,at the stroke of 5 employees would leave work,very few took initiative,most had to be told what to do....

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CINEMA

 

Culture Connections

 

The first edition of the South Africa India Film and Television Awards (SAIFTA) that took place in Durban on September 6 had talent from both countries, India and South Africa, share centre stage. Ranveer Singh, Priyanka Chopra, Madhuri Dixit-Nene, John Abraham, Abhay Deol, Manish Paul, Karan Wahi and Mona Singh were among those who walked the red carpet. The event is a tie-up between the tourism department of South African province KwaZulu-Natal and a private Indian events agency Celebrity Locker....

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