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Bizman dies after 12-hour long hair transplant procedure

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Bizman dies after 12-hour long hair transplant procedure

In a shocking incident a 43-year-old Mumbai based businessman died in hospital in Powai after he underwent a 12-hour-long hair transplantation procedure at a clinic. He died last week, more than 50 hours after he underwent the prolonged procedure.

The businessman, identified as Shrawan Kumar Choudhary, had attended a hair transplant session at a private clinic at Chinchpokli in central Mumbai on March 8. A resident of Sakinaka, he suffered complications soon after the hair transplant, a police official said.

Choudhary was taken to a hospital in suburban Powai, after he developed breathlessness and swelling in his throat and on face. He died on Saturday (March 9) due to allergic reaction in the hospital. According to police, the businessman showed symptoms of anaphylaxis, a serious life threatening allergic reaction. Police have registered a case of accidental death and further investigation is underway.

In his statement, the dermatologist, at whose clinic Choudhary underwent the procedure, said the businessman wanted to graft 9000 hairs in one go, which was against medical advise, the official said. Police are awaiting final postmortem report to ascertain the exact cause of death, the official added.

India has served it right and tight to Pakistan

Vikas Khanna
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India has served it right and tight to Pakistan

With New Delhi having decided to walk the talk, the world leaders are holding their cards very close to their chests. They have maintained a diplomatic silence with regard to the fast changing narrative in the region.

Pakistan has, for long, been testing India’s patience by carrying out devious attacks through its band of home-grown terrorists in Kashmir and other parts of the country. India has now dished out to the country what it has been asking for years. The faceoff witnessed in February this year was bound to happen. The air strikes on targets identified as terrorist hubs operating deep within Pakistani territories and those under forcible occupation of Pakistan was a hard and decisive message in continuation of the ground based surgical strike carried out as a riposte to the terrorist attack on a military camp at Uri, Kashmir.

For how long could Pakistan expect India to sit quiet as it went about with its state policy of terror? A loud and clear message has been delivered that India will not hesitate in going inside Pakistani territory to hunt out terrorists and their camps. This strong riposte was necessary to stop Pakistan on its tracks. Pakistan did attempt to retaliate the very next day with a counter air strike on military targets along the Line of Control (LOC). The attempt was thwarted by the well prepared Indian Air Force.

Political shenanigans that are the bane of Indian strategic discourses have been in play in this instance too. All parties are attempting to score brownie points and asking for proof of the casualties caused. By so doing they are exhibiting their complete lack of sensitivity for the honour and professionalism of the Indian Armed Forces. Notwithstanding the same, anybody with the slightest knowledge of military and strategic affairs will agree that the air strikes were very successful. Thus far, New Delhi had been held hostage to Islamabad’s manipulation of its nuclear assets. Now, with these air strikes, India has made it very clear that it has moved on from sharing of folders and diplomatic efforts to swift, on ground retribution. Pakistan’s nuclear bogey stands buried forever.

The strikes gave the required message to Pakistan, China and to the entire world about Indian intention to strike her enemies where and when required. In the backdrop of the aforementioned strategic gains, the number of casualties due to the strikes is irrelevant; it is being discussed merely for politics by those who do not have any inkling of what military strategy is all about.

China, in particular, would be very worried by the Indian exhibition of a will to target such areas in Pakistan that fall within its economic interest including the strategically very important Karakoram highway and the CPEC alignment. The country is bound to rework its economic and diplomatic strategy in view of these developments.

With New Delhi having decided to walk the talk, the world leaders are holding their cards very close to their chests. They have maintained a diplomatic silence with regard to the fast changing narrative in the region. Not only the western world but even the Muslim nations have not made any statements about the situation between the two countries and also Kashmir. In fact, the US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, had gone on to say that Washington supported India’s right to ‘self-defence’ from ‘cross-border terrorism.’

Not only Pakistan, even the separatist leadership of Kashmir has lost the confidence of the international community and has been left to fend for itself. They have brought about this situation upon themselves by maintaining a rigid posture when attempts were being made to look for a middle path. Now, political irrelevance and a crackdown by the government forces is what awaits them.

As for Pakistan, it does not have too many options right now. It cannot afford an all out war for fear of being branded the aggressor as India chose to target only terror camps and not civilian or military installations. This apart, the world opinion is heavily tilted in India’s favour. It is under this pressure and because of the need to fulfill its commitments to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) that Pakistan is going in for a crackdown on the terrorist organisations operating on its soil, especially the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).  The Government of Pakistan has publicly declared that, “44 people linked with several militant groups have been taken into preventive custody.” It is being said that these include some relatives of Masood Azar who are running the JeM in his absence; whether the intention of Pakistan is to “prevent” or “protect” these terrorists remains to be seen.

A study of previous such crackdowns leaves very little to be optimistic about. The first ban, under President Pervez Musharraf in 2002, brought in its wake no change other than the names of the organisations. They, in fact, bounced back richer and stronger than before. Whether the present Imran Khan led government in Pakistan is serious or not remains to be seen. It would, of course, be in Pakistan’s interest to remove these big irritants that are jeopardizing its relations with countries on which it is dependent for its very existence.

There is no doubt that India’s military action has upped the ante and the world is concerned about the escalation of hostilities. Indo-Pakistan relations have taken a severe hit and there does not seem a ray of hope of any betterment in the situation in the very near future. Any miscalculation by either of the two countries can bring them to the brink of a full-fledged war which does not augur well. India will, of course, practice restraint and bide time to give peace another chance as has been the established policy since partition. The ball, therefore, lies firmly in the court of Pakistan; the country can either give up on its attempts to create internal turmoil in India or it can expect retaliation of a type that could lead to its utter destruction.

One third of Pakistan’s share of Indus water is wasted

Sant Kumar Sharma
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One third of Pakistan’s share of Indus water is wasted

It’s high time Pakistan takes adequate measures to stop the wastage of Indus river’s water flowing through its territory, rather than blame India for water woes.

Pakistan is a nation that needs uninterrupted supplies of abundant waters in its geographical confines to sustain the lifestyle of its citizens. An overwhelming 95% of the country’s irrigated areas lie in the Indus river basin irrigated by the bounties that the Western Rivers (Indus, Jhelum and Chenab) bring with them.

The irrigation patterns that are followed in most of these vast agricultural lands are hugely inefficient and no efforts have been made or have been initiated about now to plug colossal water leakages. There is a seize mentality that prevails across the nation, be it the farmers, politicians or the men from military who own the country, to be always on the lookout for apportioning blames for all woes to a perceived enemy outside (read India).

To look outside and blame India for all the water woes that Pakistan faces is an all-time favourite pastime. Looking within, as opposed to looking outside, is apparently a very difficult thing to conceive and trying to plug in leakages is just not thought of as a viable option to address the attendant problems.

We can try to assess the impact of inbuilt inefficiencies in the delivery and usage patterns of irrigation within Pakistan in the Indus basin. According to several estimates, both by independent government agencies within Pakistan and also by international organisations that the total quantum of water losses is about one-third of the total inflows. Let us see what it means in real terms and how it creates an acute distress among potential users (the farmers irrigating their fields) who are so often paranoid about possible water scarcity. In all, the Western Rivers bring 80.52% share of total water available in the Indus system to Pakistan and the rest of 19.48% is for use by India.

We had earlier stated that a total quantum of one-third of the total waters accruing to Pakistan are lost due to inefficiencies. Stated in another manner, this means that around 26.52% (1/3rd of 80.52) are lost to factors inbuilt by Pakistan itself. This is at least 7% more than the entire Indus water share of India allocated to it under the Indus Water Treaty (IWT).

Therefore, theoretically, even if India were to be deprived of every single drop of water that it gets from the Eastern Rivers, Pakistan will still have nowhere to go to satiate its ravenous appetite for water. On the other hand, it can mitigate the sufferings of its thirsty fields and cacophonous farmers by promoting scientific, targeted, consistent conservation water management policies, beginning with resorting to drip irrigation on a large scale.

In fact, several innovative solutions to problems to deal with availability of insufficient and scarce water have been put into practice worldwide. The cornerstone of these practices is a strict no wastage regime being put into effect by technological interventions.

Perhaps Israel is a classic example of developing most efficient technologies in the field of agriculture. It uses a vast network of computers to help the farmers at the level of individual fields to create a system of drip irrigation unparalleled anywhere else in the world. The systems put into place are extraordinarily efficient and worth every penny spent in developing them. The drip system ensures that there are virtually no leakages anywhere throughout the built systems and water supply is controlled by the computers at the levels of individual plants. These highly evolved drip irrigation systems are also utilised for providing nutrients to plants individually.

Juxtapose these systems with the primitive, wasteful and profligate manners visible throughout the water delivery systems created by Pakistan in the Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS). Flood irrigation entailing abundant waters into cultivated areas is still the predominant method utilised all over Punjab, Sindh and other regions of the country. In fact, the hunger and thirst for water shapes the aggressive behaviour of vast populations who are all too willing to ‘do or die’ for ensuring irrigated, as opposed to parched, fields.

The muscle power, fire power and the weapons (duly kept stock of an assortment of ammunitions) with the farming communities in Pakistan are stupendous. The large amounts of money invested in buying this weaponry could have been far, far better utilised for upgrading irrigation technologies. It is inconceivable that a militaristic approach pervasive in all organs of the society, duly fostered by repeated doses of dictators, will be absent from agricultural fields, the most basic unit of individually owned territory.

PM Modi’s advice to Bollywood: Make films with message of inclusive India, says Ranveer

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PM Modi’s advice to Bollywood: Make films with message of inclusive India, says Ranveer

Actor Ranveer Singh, who had met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year, has shared that PM advised the members of the film industry to choose content propagating the idea of “inclusive India and unity”. Ranveer had met the Prime Minister, along with Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana and others, in January this year.

“I met the Prime Minister recently, we had a very pleasant meeting. We apprised him what we as young members of the film fraternity are doing. He had something to say to us, which was, that if possible, we should choose content that has in it a message of inclusive India and unity,” Ranveer told reporters.

The actor was speaking at the announcement of 64th Vimal Filmfare Awards on Monday.

“I was very happy to report to him that my next film ’83’ is one such film where it’s truly team India. You have gentlemen from all across the country coming together to make the nation proud. It’s also an extraordinary underdog story that I’m very happy and proud to be a part of,” he added.

India grounds Boeing 737 MAX aircraft : Ethiopian Airlines crash

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India grounds Boeing 737 MAX aircraft : Ethiopian Airlines crash

After United Kingdom, China, Germany, France and several other countries banned flying of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, India has also decided to ground the aircraft, till further orders.

“DGCA has taken the decision to ground the Boeing 737-MAX planes immediately. These planes will be grounded till appropriate modifications and safety measures are undertaken to ensure their safe operations. As always, passenger safety remains our top priority. We continue to consult closely with regulators around the world, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers to ensure passenger safety,” the aviation ministry said in a late night tweet

The aviation ministry’s order came on Tuesday after the deadly Ethiopian air tragedy on Sunday killed all 157 people on board. China, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Australia and Brazil and others had announced bans on Monday, one day after the crash.

SpiceJet and troubled Jet Airways are the only two airlines operating the Boeing 737 MAX. The grounding of these aircrafts will lead to cancellations and increase fares further in the domestic sector.

A Bihar cadre IAS officer is all set to join Lalu’s RJD

Shantanu Guha Ray
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A Bihar cadre IAS officer is all set to join Lalu’s RJD

Many moons ago, the Siyaram Group of garments earned eyeballs for their campaign titled Coming Home. In short, it meant everyone is comfortable in the corner of what they consider their home, the world’s safest spot. 

As India gears up for its elections, a very powerful bureaucrat in the Indian Capital is planning his post-retirement plans. So who is this Bihar cadre IAS officer, now a top secretary, all set to walk into his sunset time in three months only to emerge and join the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav? 

Apparently the decks have all been clear to get this very powerful bureaucrat to welcome into RJD. 

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The IAS officer – for long – has been a confidante of Yadav and enjoyed benefits around mid-90s when Lalu Prasad Yadav was the CM of Bihar. The IAS officer was then a District Magistrate, and reportedly took orders from Yadav. There are reports that he even organised election booths to help give access to goons hired by Yadav’s party. Remember, those were the days when there were no Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and booth capturing was a norm, as evident in states like Bihar, West Bengal and parts of UP (Uttar Pradesh).

Once his assignment was over in Bihar, this IAS officer shifted to Delhi to emerge as a confidante of P Chidambaram – then very powerful – but now being probed by both ED (Enforcement Directorate) & CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation). The two engineered big-time manipulation of stock market and commodity markets for their masters. He, along with another bureaucrat, Ajay Shah (now thoroughly exposed) worked as the super computer for PC. 

Such was this Bihar cadre IAS officer’s manipulative and penetrative powers – he was ably helped by fellow bureaucrats from Odisha – that he almost walked into the seat of SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) Chairman till PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) was alerted by some thinking MPs (Member of Parliament) from the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). If he had been selected for the post, the bureaucrat’s vice-like grip would have crippled, virtually destroyed the market regulator.

There was an air of finality, a feeling of invincibility that helped this officer become very useful for politicians to do their dirty deeds. What is important is that these very bureaucrats work behind the scenes to help their political masters when the latter are out of power.

And now that the time is up for retirement, it is time to return to the Master’s Home.  What is sad is that very few remember the destruction this officer caused to some of India’s vibrant institutions, some of India’s finest markets.

Return historical material removed from the Golden Temple during Operation Bluestar: Punjab CM

Jag Mohan Thaken
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Return historical material removed from the Golden Temple during Operation Bluestar: Punjab CM

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking the immediate restoration of the historical materials removed from the library of Sri. Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, during the Operation Bluestar in 1984.

The Chief Minister pointed out that several original and invaluable materials of Sikhism, having great historical value, were taken away by the security forces in June 1984, and no account of that had been given so far. The Sikh community has been raising this matter time and again.

Earlier, a delegation of the representatives of the Sikh Organizations Coordinate Committee from United Kingdom had met Captain Amarinder Singh.

The Chief Minister has now sought Home Minister’s indulgence in the matter to sort out the issue at the earliest, saying it would go a long way in meeting the long-pending demand of the community. He also extended all assistance and cooperation that may be required by the Government

The Punjab Government was already considering these issues raised by the delegation at appropriate levels, but the matter of restoration of the historical material to Sri Darbar Sahib required urgent intervention of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, Captain Amarinder Singh said in his letter.

Anti-India sentiments serve Pakistan’s interests

Farooq Wani
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Anti-India sentiments serve Pakistan’s interests

Indian policy makers have to ensure that all action taken by other nations are aligned to our national interest. The most important cog in the wheel is Afghanistan. The US will soon exit Afghanistan leaving us to deal with Pak-sponsored mujahedeen and other mercenaries who are now engaged in Afghanistan. The sooner we realise this and prepare for contingencies likely to befall on us after the US pull out, the better it will be.

Politics makes strange bedfellows while destiny imposes difficult neighborhoods. The two nation theory being followed by Pakistan survives on spewing venom at its secular, democratic and economically stronger neighbour — India. Two people of similar socio-cultural backgrounds, who otherwise would make the best of friends, have become enemies within the confines of their national boundaries. Even such Pakistani politicians who are considerably liberal are compelled to breathe hatred towards India to ensure their political survival.

While most nations run on policies, Pakistan runs on the diktats of a fundamentalist Mujahedeen-Military nexus. Here, even eminent non-Muslim personalities are discriminated against and denied opportunities to rise. The foreign and domestic policies are mostly formulated in the GHQ or ISI headquarters and passed down to the legislature or non-state actors for implementation. GHQ (General Headquarters) is the head office of Pakistan Army and located at Rawalpindi and ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) is the intelligence agency of Pakistan.

Although Pakistan extends lavish receptions to visiting Indian delegations, its actions on borders and diplomacy leave much to be desired for achieving the envisaged ‘Aman’ (peace). The reasons for Pakistan’s hatred towards India are manifold but it is mainly due to their failure in military misadventures against India in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947 and 1965 and dismemberment of the nation in Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. These events led to the creation of Pakistan’s policy of bleeding India through a thousand cuts. Under this policy, Pakistan diverted US aid for Afghan Mujahedeen to create unrest in Punjab in late ’70s. The policy fanned the embers of discontent amongst gullible youth and disgruntled elements of Punjab. Fortunately, good sense prevailed and the evil plan fell flat with time.

A bigger impact was witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir, especially the Kashmir Valley. Having created unrest in the valley, Pakistan realised the idea of its amalgamation with itself was most appealing. It started sending its unemployed, religiously indoctrinated and madrassa educated youth to spread greater degree of violence and unrest in Kashmir Valley, and also propped up a local element named Hizbul Mujahedeen (HM) for terrorist activities in the name of Jihad (Holy war).

Hizbul Mujahedeen became the biggest militant group in the valley with Kashmiri leadership and foreign following. Soon, the battle hardened guest Mujahedeen refused to play the second fiddle to the soft Kashmiris. During this period the Hizbul Mujahedeen had several turf skirmishes with other smaller local militant organisations which were decimated by their overwhelming ferocity of firepower. A worried Pakistan then propped up several foreign militant dominated organizations with ‘pan–Islamic or Islam sans frontiers’ agenda. These organizations had no connection with Kashmiris. The locals suffered their wrath but resolutely rejected their Wahhabi-Salafi diktats to their Sufi ideals. Foreign sponsored terrorism thus weakened with time.

The Pakistani agenda has been challenged strongly by India. Though, we may not be in a position to say that the terrorism/insurgency has ended altogether, it can be said that the fish is not getting water to swim. We cannot, though, let our guard down because of the fact that Pakistan is still providing moral, material and monetary support to the militant outfits like JuD (Jamaat-ud-Dawa), JeM (Jaish-e-Mohammad) while attempting to prop up HM (Hizbul Mujahedeen) yet again.

In order to win this battle of wills, India, first and foremost needs to become economically sound and militarily even more powerful. Economic strength will lead to development and eradication of poverty and military strength will be a deterrent for others to meddle in our affairs with impunity.  Opposing these elements, combined with political will must exhibit the nation’s intent towards not accepting the nonsense perpetrated by Pakistan. 

Pakistani supported separatist jihadist propaganda needs to be countered tooth and nail in a timely manner, supported by truth, right values and character. Pakistan may refute our cries for action but the world by now has a clear picture of what goes on in the dark alleys of Islamabad. If pressure is put, Pakistan may recoil under shame or international pressure.

Indian policy makers have to ensure that all action taken by other nations are aligned to our national interest. The most important cog in the wheel is Afghanistan. The US will soon exit Afghanistan leaving us to deal with Pak-sponsored mujahedeen and other mercenaries who are now engaged in Afghanistan. The sooner we realise this and prepare for contingencies likely to befall on us after the US pull out, the better it will be. The Pakistan-based militant warlords aligned against India like Syed Salahuddin, Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azar are already preparing to revive terrorism in Kashmir. These developments should be considered serious and seen in the light of likely ISI promises of enhanced weapon and narco-dollars support to mullah-militant nexus.

Historical perspective indicates military control of civilian institutions in Pakistan. Most of Pakistan’s military dictators have, at some point in time, been protégés of the government of the day. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Since independence, Pakistan has endured more than half of the period under military dictators. India needs to remain sensitive of this reality and prepared for any misadventure that the Pakistan Army, if cornered, will chance upon.

We have to guard against petty internal issues taking larger form and vote bank politics in the backdrop of emerging security threats to democracy and larger national interest. Calls for plebiscite in the historical and present perspective is inconsequential and airing such thoughts will not bring about conditions for the same. 

Merely parroting for the repeal of AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Acts) when the same is not in democracy and is in national interest would be a waste of energy. Its repeal will force Army and Paramilitaries to barracks giving free run to jihadists to enter porous hilly forested Line Of Control (LOC) through their training camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) from the 100 reported launch pads. Had the state forces of Jammu and Kashmir, with due regards to them, been able to handle such situation in 1989, Kashmir would have been a real paradise which the peopleseek today. Unfortunately, coping with crime is a different ballgame from combating terrorism.

The ‘Aawam’ (people) of Kashmir is hungry for security, peace, development, good governance, corruption free society, two square meals, freedom from daily worries and equality of all. Society and nation should draw its strength from patriotism, articulate values and character.

Pulwama terror attack mastermind killed in midnight encounter

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Pulwama terror attack mastermind killed in midnight encounter

Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist and the mastermind of February 14 Pulwama terror attack Mudasir Ahmed Khan alias ‘Mohd Bhai’ was among the two terrorists killed in the encounter in Tral’s Pinglish area in Pulwama district, officials said on Monday. The encounter lasted past midnight.

Security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in Pinglish after receiving specific intelligence about the presence of terrorists in the area. The operation turned into an encounter after the terrorists opened fire at the search party who retaliated, the officials said.

Lesser-known JeM terrorist Khan has been identified as the brain behind the audacious terror strike in Pulwama that left 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel dead on February 14. Suicide attacker Adil Ahmed Dar, who blew the explosive-laden vehicle next to the bus, had been in constant contact with Khan, officials said. Piecing together evidence gathered so far, security officials said 23-year-old Khan, an electrician with a graduate degree and a resident of Pulwama, arranged the vehicle and explosives used in the terror strike. A resident of Mir Mohalla of Tral, Khan joined the JeM sometime in 2017 as an overground worker and was later drawn into the terror outfit by Noor Mohammed Tantrey, alias ‘Noor Trali’, who is believed to have helped the terror group’s revival in the Kashmir Valley. After Tantray was killed in December 2017, Khan disappeared from his home on January 14, 2018, and was active since then.

CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnerships from March 17

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CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnerships from March 17

Ministry of Commerce & Industry will be organising the 14th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnerships, in association with Confederation of Indian Industry and EXIM Bank of India in New Delhi from March 17-19, 2019. The event will mark the deepening of India-Africa economic and business ties and pave the way for a whole range of cross-border project partnerships. The annual Conclave, since its inception in 2005, brings senior Ministers, policy makers, officials, business leaders, bankers, technologists, start-up entrepreneurs and other professionals from India and Africa on a common platform in a spirit of partnership.

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of Republic of Ghana, Dr. Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, Prime Minister of Republic of Guinea, Monyane Moleleki, Deputy Prime Minister of Kingdom of Lesotho will be present in this conclave.Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, C. R. Chaudhary, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry and Dr.AnupWadhawan, Secretary, Department of Commercewill also participate inthe Conclave.More than 31senior Ministers from 21 African countries apart from business delegates from 37 countries would be participating at this event.

 The Conclave is expected to see the participation of 400 plus delegates from Africa and around 300 delegates from India. The B2B meetings at this Conclave are expected to be held on more than 500 project proposals from Africa.

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