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India has begun moves to help Africa set up agri-business centres, seed incubators, modern laboratories and joint projects as part of an enhanced partnership in agriculture to achieve food and nutrition security, promote entrepreneurship and create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030.
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President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate on Feb 5 a three-day Asia-Africa Agri-Business Forum in New Delhi to deliberate on issues faced by the agriculture sectors in Africa and Asia.
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India's relations with Morocco got a major revival with the visit of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid last week that also underscored the strategic and economic importance of the North African country.
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President Ali Mohamed Shein of Tanzania's semi-autonomous region Zanzibar visits India Feb 1-9 and one of his important engagements, besides official talks in New Delhi, would be a visit to the Barefoot College in Rajasthan's Tilonia, that has taught 100 women from his country to make solar lamps.... |
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Commerce Minister Anand Sharma urged his visiting Zimbabwean counterpart for a speedy closure of the iron ore deal involving the Essar Group and the Zimbabwe government... |
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South African social networking and chat app Mxit makes an entry into India, its first stop outside of the African Continent.... |
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Leading B-schools the world over may be teaching the tricks to tackle cut-throat competition and the "go-for-it" killer instinct to prepare management graduates for industry, but a management institute near Chandigarh in the state of Punjab in India has something different in mind.... |
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Students wishing to spend more time reading and researching in Jawahar Lal University (JNU) in Delhi will now be able to do so at their own ease. Acting on a long-standing demand of students, the central library at JNU will now be operational round the clock.... |
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AT 26 years, she measures 7 feet 8 inches and weighs about 130 kilograms, with a shoe size of 15-16. Four months after making it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s tallest woman, the young woman (name withheld on doctors’ request) from South Dinajpur district in West Bengal underwent a surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) earlier this month, for removal of a “giant” brain tumour which was responsible for secretion of growth hormones up to 16-18 times above the normal level for the last 15 years.... |
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The lack of thirst or the lesser urge to drink water in winter can lead to major health problems like cystitis or urinary tract infection, especially in women, doctors say.... |
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Upping the ante for a competent drug delivery system that specifically destroys cancer cells and ensures reduced toxicity to the normal ones, Indian scientists have successfully used a new strategy to enhance targeted drug release by nanoparticles.... |
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If in 2006 Shinya Yamanaka showed to the world that reversing adult cells (differentiated cells) to behave like stem cells — induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) — is indeed possible by introducing four transcription factors, two studies published today (January 30) in Nature have gone a step further.... |
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Thirty-year-old Chitra Shah was devastated when she discovered that her husband was suffering from lung cancer. She found it extremely hard to look after her young child and aged in-laws and take her husband for his post-surgery chemotherapy sessions to a hospital 40 km away. A financial crunch put additional pressure on her.... |
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Trade between India and Ghana may be growing but the increasing trade imbalance between the two countries needs to be corrected, Roger Angsomwine,Ghana's secretary to the cabinet, has said.... |
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Zimbabwe's central bank January 29 said it would add the Indian Rupee to the basket of currencies to be circulated in the country.
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India has become an R&D hotbed and in keeping with the global R&D trend of last year, the country is now a preferred destination for automotive R&D, according to a study on the Global Top 500 R&D spenders done by Zinnov, a globalisation advisory and market expansion firm.
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During field visits to the outskirts of Bangalore as a consultant in 2012, Gandharv Bakshi’s mobile phone would constantly run out of power. A casual mention of his frustrations to fashion designer wife led to the emergence of Lumos Design Technology—which makes bags with an inbuilt battery that can power mobile devices through solar power. ... |
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Turning seaweed into bio fuel was an idea so audacious that most people who heard of it dismissed it as a pipe dream. But for a group of tenacious students at IIT-Madras the naysayers were no deterrent. In just four years, the team of five has successfully transformed a futuristic idea into a new business venture. |
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Angad Daryani, a 15-year-old Mumbai resident, found it tough to convince his dad to part with the $1597 required for buying a ready-to-use 3D printer. So he decided to make one himself. |
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