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Photograph of a female Asiatic cheetah. — AFP/FileNEW DELHI: Eight cheetahs will be sent to India where they will be personally welcomed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday, officials said Tuesday, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the speedy big cats to the country. India in the past…

Get the biggest business stories emailed to you every weekday or go to the Fin24 front page.French independent power producer HDF Energy expects its green hydrogen power plant in Namibia, Africa's first, to start producing electricity by 2024, a senior company executive said on Monday. Once operational, the 3.1 billion Namibian dollar ($181.25 million) Swakopmund project…

Around 150 families from over 20 villages around India’s Kuno National Park are being shifted from their homes to welcome eight adult Cheetahs from Namibia on September 17.  India will be home to Cheetahs after over 70 years of the animal becoming extinct in the country.  Sources in India’s environment…

In efforts to prepare Namibia to fully seize opportunities under the much anticipated African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the trade ministry through the Namibia Trade Forum and in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme Namibia yesterday launched an awareness campaign. The stakeholders are undertaking a series of awareness…

INDIA has rejected three of the cheetahs translocated from Namibia last month. - This comes after Namibia agreed to translocate eight cheetahs to India, following the signing of an agreement by the two countries on wildlife conservation and sustainable biodiversity utilisation. Cheetahs were officially declared extinct in India in 1952.…

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has confirmed that the translocation of African cheetahs to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh is expected to culminate in September. Yadav told the The Indian Express that all formalities with Namibia have been completed and the cheetahs were being prepped for the translocation. Eight…

NewsIreland, Scotland, Namibia, UAE and Netherlands are set to play at the iconic MCG for potentially the first time Australia will also face India in a three-match T20I series in India, before their warm-up game in Brisbane  •  Associated Press Hosts and defending champions Australia will take on India in their only…

UAE: The ink has now dried on ILT20’s impressive International signings which sees the inaugural roster boast representation of 84-Internationals. 72 are from ICC Full Member countries, with a remarkable line-up of 12-players from seven Associate Nations, and a ground-breaking 24 from the UAE will be added to the squads.…

The latest actuarial report on the Government's Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) indicates benefits paid by the fund currently exceed contributions collected. For this reason, GIPF's board of trustees have put in place specific strategies to ensure the sustainability of the largest pension fund in the country. One of the recommendations…

Katima Mulilo — The Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, has called on members of conservancies to refrain from poaching and misuse of funds. Furthermore, he stated the ministry has unearthed a possible syndicate of poaching, involving conservancy members. "Here, in this region (Zambezi), people were arrested. Chairperson,…