It is fine for the Indian Diaspora to celebrate their unique culture as it contributes to the development of the other communities in their home countries as well, premier of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa has said.
The Indian embassy here has refuted media allegations on the safety of meat imported from the country, which is available in the Egyptian market.

After waiting for months for the Senate to act, President Barack Obama has announced he would bypass a vacationing senate to make recess appointments of 15 nominees, including an Indian American agricultural scientist as chief agricultural negotiator in trade talks.
Part-time taxi driver Gursewak Dhillon apparently ran out of fuel and was helped by a woman in this Australian city while he was driving around with three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa in the boot of his car, the police said.
A unique exhibition, billed as the first of its kind in the UK, will tell the story of the Indian portrait over three centuries, exploring the fascinating ways in which artists have approached the depiction of the human form and the changing role of portraiture.

Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for "possible immigration fraud", an official said.
An Australian court in Melbourne has denied bail to a 21-year-old Indian cabbie accused of raping a female passenger who was travelling in his car.
Australian immigration authorities are investigating whether Indian national Gursewak Dhillon, accused in the death of three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa, was living in Melbourne on a false passport.
After months of waiting, the body of a 33-year-old Indian businessman which was found dumped near New South Wales border last October, has been cremated by his family in Australia at a memorial ceremony.
A three-year-old Indian boy whose body was found dumped in Melbourne loved living in Australia, his grief-stricken mother said, admitting that she cannot come to terms with her child’s death.
There has been a 26 percent increase in Indians holidaying in Australia's Victoria state in the year ending December 2009 as compared to the same period in 2008, reveals a survey that comes in the backdrop of a string of attacks on Indian students in this country.
Parents of three-year-old Indian toddler who was "killed" here on March 4, will leave for India tonight with the child's body to perform the last rites.
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi has told a gathering of South African Indians here that they should be indebted to their forebears for having shaped the thinking of his grandfather during his stay in the capital.
Indian-born Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery.
India-born doctor Jayant Patel caused the deaths of three patients and left a man permanently impaired after he performed on him a "useless" and "careless" operation to remove his bowel, an Australian court was told.