Ahmedabad: Gujarat University has found overstaying at its hostel by seven foreign students who have completed their studies. These foreign nationals, six of them from Afghanistan and one from Eastern African country are asked to leave the Gujarat University's hostel. Overstaying at hostel even after completing the studies is not allowed. It is learnt that the foreign nationals were overstaying here under the excuses of pending stamping and other procedures. DeshGujaratRead More

Junagadh: Gujarat Police have through their efforts rescued Farhan Parmar, a Gujarat-origin youth, from kidnappers in Africa. Farhan was held captive, and a demand of 80 lakhs was made to his Mangrol, Gujarat-based family for his release. However, the Junagadh Police collaborated with the Ministry of External Affairs and secured his release. Originally from Mangarol, Farhan Parmar had been working in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for four and a half years withou...Read More

Gandhinagar: The second India Africa defense dialogue will take place on 12th March, on the sideline of the DefExpo 2022 scheduled from 10th to 14th March in Gandhinagar. Total 20 African defense ministers have confirmed their presence and more are expected to give confirmation. Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will be leading from the Indian side. Around 70 countries will participate at the seminar in the DefExpo 2022. The second India Africa defence dialogue aims to give dire...Read More

Ahmedabad: Well known NRI industrialist of Gujarati origin Narendra Raval, who represents a very inspiring story of 'Rags to Riches' and has become one of the richest people in the African continent despite a very humble and poverty-hit early life, today said that failure should not be looked down upon as it was the most important thing for success in life. Raval also urged people to keep dreaming and continue to work hard with full involvement and commitment. Raval who h...Read More

Ganshinagar: Government of Gujarat organized an Exporters Meet here as a precursor to the Africa Day (January 19) event as a part of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019. The meet saw participation of around 200 exporters and trade associations, who export good and services to Africa. The Interactive Session was organized to help streamline the bottlenecks and hurdles exporters face in carrying out exports to Africa and also to seek suggestions for improvement in the trade proce...Read More

Ahmedabad: An African national (resident of West African Country Côte d'Ivoire) who had hidden plastic coated ball containing cocaine in his stomach has been nabbed from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport here today. Airport Police station PI N N Parmar said that 29 year old Johou Alaxis was caught by CISF while he was going to board Ahmedabad-Mumbai Jetlite flight number S2315. During body scan sound of bip was heard when the scanner was put around his b...Read More

Vadodara: Six African students including a girl were today arrested in connection with eve-teasing with a married woman and beating-up of her husband in Pavlepur village under Vaghodia police station area of Vadodara district in Gujarat. Police said that all the six arrested in the wee hours today from their resident in Akshar society were students of Engineering college in Parul University in Vaghodia. They all were residents of Angonia in Mozambique. They had misbeha...Read More

New Delhi: Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, will pay a State Visit to Republic of Rwanda (23-24 July), Republic of Uganda (24-25 July) and Republic of South Africa (25-27 July). This will be the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Rwanda and the first visit by our Prime Minister to Uganda in over 20 years. The visit to South Africa is in the context of BRICS Summit. Prime Minister’s official engagement in Rwanda and Uganda include bilateral meetings with the Presidents, d...Read More

  Ahmedabad: The board of North Gujarat based Hester Biosciences has approved the setting up of an animal vaccine manufacturing unit in Tanzania. USE 1.80 crore project is expected to be commissioned in later half of calendar year 2020. The company said that has units in India and Nepal in a statement said, it sees a very big potential in Africa for animal vaccines. More than 80% of the vaccines required in Africa are imported. Besides the common diseases, there are Africa-specific di...Read More