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Siemens bags Rs 55 cr order from Algerian firm

Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2015, 17:53

Siemens Ltd Thursday said it has bagged an order worth about Rs 55 crore for supply of high voltage circuit breakers from an arm of the state-run Sonelgaz Group of Algeria.

Nirmala Sitharaman to lead business delegation to Algeria

Last Updated: Saturday, May 23, 2015, 15:57

FICCI with the support of ministry of commerce and industry, and Indian embassy in Algeria are organising the India Pavilion at the 48th Algiers International Trade Fair.

OPEC daily basket price closes tad higher

Last Updated: Monday, February 23, 2015, 16:54

The basket of 12 crude oils of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) closed at USD 56.55 a barrel Friday, compared with $56.29 last Thursday, the OPEC secretariat said.

Cipla to form JV with Biopharm SPA for respiratory products

Last Updated: Friday, February 13, 2015, 12:25

Pharmaceutical firm Cipla Ltd has entered into an agreement with Biopharm SPA to form a joint venture company in Algeria to manufacture and market respiratory products, the company said Friday.

Algeria looks to invest $70 bn in shale gas over 20 years

Last Updated: Sunday, January 11, 2015, 18:35

Algeria`s state-owned energy giant Sonatrach plans to invest at least $70 billion over the next 20 years to exploit shale gas in the southern desert, its managing director said on Sunday.

Algerian Islamists to boycott presidential election

Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 03:48

Algeria`s main Islamist party, the Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP), on Saturday announced a boycott of the presidential election due to be held April 17.

11 killed in traffic accident in Algeria 

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 11:22

As many as 11 people were killed and 28 others injured in a deadly traffic accident Sunday in Algeria`s Ouargla province, some 800 km southeast of here, authorities said.

French minister says row over Hollande Algeria quip `behind us`

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 13:12

France`s Interior Minister said Monday that a controversy over a joke made by French President Francois Hollande suggesting that Algeria was unsafe, which sparked a diplomatic row with Algiers, "was behind us". 

US blacklists Algerian jihadists, Nusra leader

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 04:24

The United States today blacklisted a shadowy Al-Qaeda breakaway faction behind the bloody siege of an Algerian gas plant, and the leader of a Palestinian group fighting for Islamists in Syria.

Algeria kills high-level al Qaeda leader: Official

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 23:10

Algerian army helicopters killed a top al Qaeda leader and four associates as they sped through the southern Algerian desert, a local official said on Thursday.

Two Guantanamo prisoners refuse release to Algeria

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 14:08

Two Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay are fighting efforts by US President Barack Obama`s administration to transfer them to their homeland, fearing abuse, a lawyer has said.

Algeria`s Bouteflika nominated for 4th term: party

Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 17:05

Algeria`s 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was today designated his party`s candidate in the 2014 presidential election, despite having been largely unseen for months because of health woes.