Fifty five-year-old Niten Singh was burnt alive by a mob in his home in Actonville, Johannesburg. According to media reports, nearly 100 people from a local hostel attacked and looted the photographer's residence before setting it on fire. No arrests have been made yet.
A number of shops belonging to the Asians were reportedly vandalised in the town of Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, on Tuesday. More than 22 people have been killed, hundreds injured and about 5 000 people have been left destitute since violence first erupted in the township of Alexandria, near Johannesburg on May 11.
Expressing shock at the wave of xenophobic attacks on foreigners that have killed 15 people in the country, South African President Thabo Mbeki on Monday ordered law enforcement agencies to act firmly against perpetrators. Fifteen people are now known to have been killed since the attacks started in the Alexandra township last week, against foreign nationals, especially against those from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia.
Nigeria and South Africa, who jostle for political and economic supremacy on the African continent, were drawn together in their World Cup qualifying group on Sunday. Although South Africa, as hosts of the 2010 event, qualify automatically for the finals, they are participating in the preliminaries because they also serve as qualifiers for the 2010 African Nations Cup finals.
Coca-Cola pledged on Tuesday to conserve seven of the world's most critical river basins under a $20 million plan but skipped India, where it faces protests for allegedly depleting ground water.
Zambia can very soon emerge as a big investment destination for Indian firms looking for agriculture land to produce various crops.
India is the next great frontier for global retailers, a $500 billion market growing at 20 per cent a year.
The global epidemic continues to grow with 2.9 million deaths last year.
The two decades of our "spectacular economic progress" has side-stepped vast swath of our underprivileged that oscillates between twenty per cent and one-fifth of our population!
A group of Indian scientists are to traverse a 35,000-km journey by road from the Himalayas in India to the Cape Agulhas in South Africa to study the history of the continents of Asia and Africa.
Angola and Kenya were eliminated from the 2010 World Cup finals after failing to make the cut in the African qualifiers.
The examination will be conducted by the UPSC on April 18, 2010, for admission to the Army, Navy and Air Force wings of the NDA.
India is ranked 90th on a list of 146 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index, according to Transparency International ratings. India was ranked 83rd last year.
India demonstrated leadership on behalf of countries in South-East Asian Region to integrate agricultural diversification and alternative crops to tobacco in the comprehensive tobacco control as FCTC proposes.
The 4-year stand-down period between representing an associate member and full member has been abolished.
'There will be morbidity, there will be mortality. Other health conditions are going to get much worse,' says IPCC Chairman Dr R K Pachauri.
India's shooters and wrestlers continued their good showing to boost India's gold medals tally on Day 3 of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in Delhi, on Wednesday. The hosts added six more gold to their tally, with shooters contributing to three of those. They also won four silver and two bronze medals to stay second in the standings, behind Australia.
A look at India's performance on the second day of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, on Tuesday.
Praj Industries' impressive quarterly results sent the scrip spiraling to its 10% ceiling at Rs 44.10 in early trades on Monday.
Asian gold medallist Suranjoy Singh (52kg) and Amandeep Singh (49kg) advanced to the quarter-finals, while defending champion Akhil Kumar (56kg) booked a place in the last-16 stage in front of a rapturous home crowd at the Talkatora stadium on Thursday.
India have been drawn in along with Japan, Oman and Singapore in the Asian qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup football finals.\n\n
In the Global Corruption Index, a survey of 133 nations conducted by Transparency International (an anti-graft watchdog), India stood 83rd, recording a score of 2.8 out of 10.
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