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Jet Airways drops plan for Mumbai-South Africa flight

by Fakir Hassen March 7, 2008 Africa

India’s Jet Airways has scrapped its plans to launch a Mumbai-Johannesburg flight from April in favour of more lucrative destinations.
The airline has postponed its planed operations to South Africa indefinitely in favour of more profitable routes to destinations such as the US and China, Jet Airways representative Alex Cost said.
“We operate a business and have [...]

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Amartya Sen closer to 100th honorary doctorate

by admin April 16, 2007 World

Johannesburg, April 15 (DPA) Indian-born Nobel economics laureate Amartya Sen is due to deliver a lecture in South Africa this week and receive yet another honorary doctorate.

But, according to an interview published by the Johannesburg-based Sunday Times newspaper, the 73-year-old Cambridge-educated professor does not keep count of the honorary doctorates he has received.
“I make a [...]

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Indian community in Kampala shaken by attack

by admin April 14, 2007 World

Johannesburg, April 14 (IANS) Indians in the Ugandan capital Kampala are still frightened and shaken after Thursday’s mob attack in which at least two Indians were killed and a Hindu temple attacked by a mob protesting the proposed expansion plan of an Indian sugar firm by cutting down a protected rainforest.

The mob was protesting at [...]

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Gujarati banker found dead in Johannesburg basement

by admin March 28, 2007 World

Johannesburg, March 28 (IANS) The mutilated body of an Indian-origin man was found in a car park in the basement of a building here.

Ameet Naran, 29, a Gujarati bank employee, died after sustaining multiple stab wounds to his body here last week. A few days earlier, he had ended a one-year relationship with his Muslim [...]

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