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17 February 2014

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SPOTLIGHT

 

India's seeks to engage more with North and West Africa

 

India is looking for greater engagement with the predominantly Francophone northern and western parts of Africa to balance its historically robust ties with the eastern and southern parts of the continent.  ...

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India, Seychelles partners in 'Blue Economy' for Africa's development

 

 Vital to India's interests in the Indian Ocean, the island nation of Seychelles is working closely with India in developing the "Blue Economy" concept - a blueprint to tap the ocean's resources for transforming their coastal economies and the African continent....

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INDIA-AFRICA COOPERATION

 

India to set up rural technology park in Cote d'Ivoire

 

India is to set up a rural technology park in the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, in addition to an information and communication technology park that has been inaugurated in the former French colony....

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Will end discrimination, Delhi Chief Minister to African diplomats

 

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal February 12  met diplomats from 30 African countries and assured them that his government will do everything possible to end discrimination against Africans in the capital....

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PANORAMA

 

Making the Past Perfect: Indian traditional craft exhibition

 

In India, our innate sense of luxury goes beyond bespoke. It lies in the handmade, the everyday, in being inclusive and that’s what “Made in…India: Samskara” reveals. The exhibition, which opened on Tuesday, fuses traditional craft with contemporary expertise to fashion clothes, tableware, furniture, textiles and decor....

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IT/TECHNOLOGY

 

Hindustan Aeronautics builds crew module for human spaceflight

 

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) said it has delivered to the Indian space agency a maiden crew module it designed and built for the human spaceflight programme in the future....

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Keeping lithium batteries from burning

 

Between January 7 and 14, incidents involving five Boeing 787 Dreamliners around the world spurred concern over the aircraft’s design and installed safety measures....

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India's spacecraft to Mars now 14.4 million km away from home

 

After a flight of three months, India's maiden spacecraft to Mars, Mangalyaan, is healthy, on track and at a distance of 14.4 million km from Earth....

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BUSINESS

 

Marico to expand in Asia, Africa

 

Marico, a leading Indian FMCG player with products in hair care, skin care and edible oils business, is keen to enter new markets in Asia and Africa....

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Fossil fuel markets curb renewable energy in Africa: UN official

 

The global markets in fossil fuels are curbing the development of renewable energy in Africa, a top UN official said in New Delhi....

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Agriculture/Energy

 

Power to farmers: Indian scientists float novel concept

 

A time may soon come when farmers who feed the people of India will also produce electricity to feed the national power grid....

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India set for record harvest

 

India is set to post its highest ever food output with a likely production of 263.2 million tonne of food grain this year, India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said....

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HEALTH

 

Egypt cancer patient's kin bats for India in US drug patent case

 

Nina Mahmud can’t bear to watch her husband grieve as his father battles liver cancer. His last bottle of Nexavar, the only thing keeping him alive, runs out on Saturday. “He is living bottle to bottle,” Mahmud, 35, said, fighting back tears....

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Wombs for rent in satellite township of Delhi

 

The availability of potential surrogates and world-class medical infrastructure, coupled with better connectivity, has fuelled the growth of commercial surrogacy in Gurgaon, a satellite township of Delhi....

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NRI makes cancer treatment accessible, affordable in India

 

Moved by an insight gained during a vacation in India four years ago, a British citizen of Indian origin has launched an initiative that provides 22 hospitals across the country with the latest medical equipment to make cancer treatment accessible and affordable....

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Exercise helps curb back aches

 

One of the most common ailments these days — back and neck aches has started affecting people as young as 20-year old, claim health experts....

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EDUCATION

 

Harvard to co-create US-like competitive body in India

 

A multi-disciplinary brains trust is being co-created for India by noted Harvard professor Michael E. Porter with a mission to replicate the US structure and enhance India's prosperity, according to sources privy to the development. f one eats with hands and not fork and spoon....

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Cheer returns to India's business school campuses

 

The final placement season may have just begun at the top Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), but the cheer at B-schools that have completed final placements is having a rub-off effect....

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FASHION

 

Virtues of eating with hands: A Kerala banana leaf experience

 

Why should one eat with one's hands? Eating food with your hands feeds not only the body but also the mind and the spirit. That is the Vedic wisdom behind Kerala's (a south Indian state) famous Banana Leaf Experience whose pleasure can only be appreciated fully, it is said, if one eats with hands and not fork and spoon....

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This African food delight creates new high

 

Fancy a new foodie high in the ambiance of an African jungle? This is just what restaurant chain Barbeque Nation has launched with its "Hakuna Matata" African food festival across its nine outlets in the city....

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Food Guide To India

 

For the past 18 years, Charmaine O' Brien, 49, a culinary writer and food expert, has been traveling across India, researching Indian food. The result is the recently unveiled The Penguin Food Guide To India....

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CINEMA

 

Mandela biopic's India connection

 

 A strong Indian connection—be it Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence or his Indianorigin comrade Ahmed Kathrada—has always been a significant part of the anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s revolution. After his death last November, the Rashtrapati Bhavan again saw a revival of Mandela’s legacy on Saturday, courtesy one of his lesser-known Indian connections: Anant Singh, the producer of ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’, a much-acclaimed film on the Nobel laureate’s life....

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