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Exim Bank sign MoU with AFDBMUMBAI: Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) and the African Development Bank (AFDB) today signed a memora...

Exim Bank sign MoU with AFDB

MUMBAI: Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) and the African Development Bank (AFDB) today signed a memorandum of understanding for co-financing projects in Africa. Y B Desai, managing director of Exim Bank and Omar Kabbaj, president of the AFDB group signed the MoU on the eve of the 1999 annual meetings of the AFDB group being held in Cairo. The MoU also provides that Exim Bank and AFDB will co-operate in promotional activities including exchange of information and publications relating to business and investment opportunities, providing logistic support to officials visiting each other for field surveys, organising workshops, seminars and symposia.

Airbus Industrie

MUMBAI: Airbus Industrie delivered its 2,000th since the establishment of the European consortium manufacturer 30 years ago. The aircraft, an A340-300, was delivered to the German flag carrier Lufthansa at Airbus Indistries headquarters in Toulouse, France. With a backlog of nearly 1,400aircraft on firm order, Airbus has been increasing production over the past years in order to meet the demand of satisfied customers. It took Airbus 23 years to deliver its 1,000th aircraft – an A320 to Northwest Airlines – in March 1993, the second thousand aircraft took only six years. In 1999, the Airbus Industrie will deliver more aircraft than it did in the first nine years of production. At current production rates, the 3,000th aircraft will be delivered in less than three years.

‘Bangladeshis’ and ‘ghuspaithiyas’: BJP MP Brij Lal stops five sanitation workers on road in to quiz them on video

‘Bangladeshis’, ‘ghuspaithiyas’: On camera, BJP MP quizzes 5 sanitation workers

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BJP MP and former UP DGP Brij Lal has sparked controversy with a video accusing five sanitation workers in Lucknow's Gomti Nagar Extension of being Bangladeshi infiltrators. Lal, a former IPS officer, claims to know how terrorism works and alleges that these workers are a threat to the nation. He appeals to CM Yogi Adityanath to deport them and claims they have fake identities.

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