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02 December 2013

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SPOTLIGHT

 

'India needs to increase engagement with West Africa'

 

India should not have a “one size fits all policy” towards Africa and there is need to increase interaction and trade with Western Africa, especially with Niger having large uranium reserves and willing to export to energy-hungry India, said a group of experts who visited West Africa as part of an advisory group on the continent.  ...

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INDIA AFRICA COOPERATION

 

India strengthens economic ties with West Africa

 

A conference held in the Ghanaian capital Accra on India's relations with West Africa has called for enhanced economic engament in context of the growing trade and commerce are booming between India and the largely French-speaking region.  ...

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'India can partner Ethiopia in space technology'

 

With Ethiopia launching a new space programme last month, India can have a promising partnership with Africa in this frontier technology, India's outgoing ambassador in Addis Ababa has said....

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Trade Between India and West Africa Hits $8 Billion

 

India's bilateral trade with West African countries, including Ghana, has experienced a significant increase from $1.7 billion in 2003-04 to $8 bilion in 2012-13.  ...

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NEWS

 

India gets fresh six month waiver from Iran sanctions

 

After the landmark nuclear deal with Iran, US has exempted India and eight other countries from Iran sanctions for another six months with "additional significant reductions" in their Iranian crude oil purchases....

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BUSINESS

 

Indian industry calls for global fund to meet WTO obligations

 

The Indian industry has called for a WTO agreement on mandatory global funding to meet extra costs incurred by poor and developing countries for meeting obligations they undertake at its forthcoming Bali meeting.  ...

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�India will return to high growth path�

 

The Indian economy is going through a sluggish period but has great potential for future growth, a Chinese economist has said, adding a word of caution that the growth will not be at last decade’s rapid pace....

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TECHNOLOGY

 

Countdown: 300 days to Mars for India begins

 

 India's maiden mission to Mars - the Mars Orbiter spacecraft - left Earth's orbit in the early hours of Sunday to begin its 300-day voyage to the red planet....

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HEALTH

 

India to set up largest public cord blood bank

 

Nalini Ambady, the first Indian American woman to teach psychology at Harvard and Stanford universities, died of leukemia last month after failing to find a donor for a life-saving bone marrow transplant both in the US and India. But she is not the only one. In India, the situation is very grim.  ...

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BOOKS

 

India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power, E. Mawdsley and G. McCann (eds.)

 

This highly informative collection of essays edited by Emma Mawdsley and Gerard McCann provides the reader with an excellent overview of India's presence in Africa - a topic neglected by most books on Indian foreign policy (with the notable exception of Jacob's and Chandran's India's Foreign Policy- Old Problems, New Challenges, which includes a short chapter on the issue).

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New book on India's Africa policy

 

For most scholars and foreign policy specialists in Francophone Africa, India seems to be a blind spot, in the study of the relationships between Africa and the emerging powers, and almost all their attention is dedicated to China.  ...

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SPORTS

 

Ethiopians dominate Pune Marathon

 

The 28th chapter of Pune International Marathon belonged to the Ethiopian runners, who bettered their Kenyan rivals to win seven out of nine medals.  ...

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CINEMA

 

'India, South Africa film collaboration can be of great significance'

 

India and South Africa collaborating in the field of cinema could be of great significance for the art of filmmaking, a South African director said in Panaji.  ...

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