• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the African Development Bank’s annual meeting that is taking place in Gandhinagar this year, on Tuesday. India has been a member of the Bank since 1983 with an objective to boost business and investment ties with Africa, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
  • “In the last three decades, Asia grew faster than the world and in the coming decades, Africa also needs to grow fast with Asia. It has a lot of resources, but development is lagging,” he said, while speaking to reporters.