His death puts the species on the very edge of extinction.
'The conspiracy is to end India's entrepreneurship culture even before it fully blooms.' 'Negativity is being spread in society towards all those who do business, and this hatred for business and wealth creators is spilling everywhere.'
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi asserted that the Congress will protect the Constitution and the reservation system at all costs and foil "conspiracies" of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Images from the opening day's action in the Olympics women's football tournament in Paris on Thursday.
Joyous people poured onto the streets, danced and kissed the earth to mark the oil-rich South Sudan becoming the world's newest country on Saturday, with international leaders, including Vice President Hamid Ansari, witnessing history unfolding in the country's capital in Juba.
The actor is trying hard to push awareness about the ongoing violence in Sudan's Darfur region.
Five Indian Army personnel, including a Lt Colonel, all part of a UN peacekeeping mission, were on Tuesday killed and as many injured when their convoy was ambushed by rebels in South Sudan.
Global food giant Heinz on Monday withdrew some of its products from the Chinese markets as health authorities found that they contained the carcinogenic Sudan-I dye, the state media reported.
Nigerian footballer Endurance Idahor died after collapsing during a game in Khartoum on Saturday, football association officials said. Idahor, 25, who played for Sudan's Al-Merreikh club, clashed with another player minutes after the start of the match, an official from the Sudan's Football Association told Reuters.
16 Indians were missing after the incident that happened at Seela Ceramic Factory in Bahri area in Khartoum, the national capital, on Tuesday.
This is a reward for its cooperation in fighting terrorists.
Leading business groups of the country like Reliance and the Tatas have shown interest in entering the Sudanese market, Ambassador of Sudan in India Abdal Mahmood Adbal Haleem Mohammad said on Monday.
Minister of State for External Affairs, V K Singh, who accompanied the passengers, told media persons at the airport that 156 persons have been evacuated, of whom two are from Nepal. There are over 550 Indians at Juba and another 150 in areas where the oil wells are located.
The Indian embassy in Khartoum said the deceased, Albert Augestine, was working in a Dal Group Company in Sudan.
India has become one of the first nations to accord diplomatic recognition to South Sudan, the world's youngest country, which split away from the Khartoum-ruled north after decades of a brutal war that claimed nearly 20 lakh lives. The recognition was accorded through a letter by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to South Sudan's new President General Salva Kiir Mayardit, shortly after he assumed power at the Independence Day function in Juba on Saturday.
Hindujas said the deal was struck by Ashok Leyland, an Indian company owned by the Hindujas.
Sudan advanced into the African Nations Cup quarter-finals after a 2-1 win over Burkina Faso on Monday handed them second place in Group B by the slimmest of margins.
Vice President John Garang was killed when a Ugandan presidential plane he was travelling in crashed into a mountain range in southern Sudan
American Masai Russell won the Olympic 100 metres hurdles title in a blanket finish on Saturday.
'When our daughters, wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Vignesh Phogat, were protesting at the Jantar Mantar, the police kicked them with their shoes.'
Negotiations for release of the hostages are progressing well, the officials told PTI, adding they could be free in a day or two. The abduction is suspected to have been carried out by some dissatisfied locals, who are unhappy at the benefits of oil resources not reaching them.
Three Indian peacekeepers were killed when attackers stormed a United Nations base in South Sudan where civilians had taken refuge, as violence and unrest continued unabated in the the world's newest country.
An Indian colonel was injured in fresh firing in the troubled Malakal region in South Sudan
Operation Sankat Mochan, aimed at evacuating over 500 Indians stuck in the war-torn South Sudan, got underway on Thursday.
Four Indian oil workers were kidnapped in southern Sudan on Thursday, according to diplomatic sources. Deepak Vohra, Indian ambassador in Khartoum, confirmed the news. He said that every effort is being made to secure the release of the four Indians. Darfur rebels, who have been fighting a civilian war for five years in the region, denied any role in the abduction of the workers.
The Indian armed force will police the southern Darfur region, which has been wracked by ethnic conflict between Muslim and Christian militia.
Indian power expertise to Sudan for oil, gas blocks
The jawan underwent an emergency surgery at the Army's Research Referral (R&R) Hospital in New Delhi, and his severed hand was stitched back, they said.
With the athletes bidding goodbye to Paris after another bone-tingling edition of the Olympics, Norma Astrid Godinho/Rediff.com, shares some interesting nuggets that made the Paris Olympics an event to remember!
In their quest for gold, these miners risk their lives and plunge into dark gorges in the barren deserts of Sudan.
The plane was on an internal flight to the capital, Khartoum.
The release of Mohd Aseeb Shaikh early on Wednesday morning came after sustained efforts, including negotiations with the abductors, sources told PTI in Delhi. Shaikh, who hails from Mumbai, was abducted alongwith three of his co-workers of a petroleum company on May 13 in the oil-rich Heglig area in southern Sudan.
The Court's pre-trial chamber said that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Bashir is responsible for three counts of genocide against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups in the region. The charges include genocide by killing; genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm; and genocide by deliberately inflicting conditions of life meant to destroy each target group.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, is in talks with two Middle-East Asian companies to acquire stake in an oil field in Sudan that is estimated to hold oil reserves in excess of 3.5 billion barrels.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corp will finalise this month the purchase of a 25 per cent stake in Sudan's controversial oil project from Canada's Talisman Energy Inc, officials said.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, has submitted bids for acquiring two more oil blocks in Sudan.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has retained services of Trafigura Ltd of London to trade its share of 60,000 barrels per day of crude oil from the Greater Nile Oil Project in Sudan in the international markets.
The United Nations has sought India's help to resolve training issues to raise standards of peacekeepers and also asked it to contribute helicopters for its mission in Darfur region of Sudan, UN Under-Secretary General Alain Le Roy has said.
The Mission was established in March, 2005 to monitor the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
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