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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Hatsun Agro Product Ltd has announced plans to reposition its Arun ice-creams as a super premium brand, with more cream and smoother texture, to grab more market share this summer. The company plans to invest over IND Rupees 60 million (US$1.26 million) in the new range, which will include new “fun shapes.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
CADBURY India has joined telecommunications technology companies BPL Mobile and E Cube India to launch 30 chocolate pilot vending machines in Mumbai (Bombay) operated by mobile handsets. Mobile users stand near a machine and dial 2233; its display shows their telephone number, asks for their choice, and dispenses it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government seems finally to have prevailed over the European Union in the long-running row over bed linen anti-dumping duties, with the European Commission proposing that a review of the protection be abandoned, along with plans to re-impose the suspended tariffs themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALL but one of the commonly used forms of asbestos have been added to a United Nations blacklist, enabling countries to block further imports without being challenged in global tribunals such as the World Trade Organisation. Amosite, actinolite, anthophyllite and tremolite were added to the Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent (PIC) list by an intergovernmental negotiating committee, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADITIONAL weavers from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan are being trained in using the Internet to source raw materials from India and advertise their colourful fabrics online. A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project is teaching weavers e-business basics as well as subsiding Internet connections in rural areas of this remote country and improved working conditions.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
DECLARATIONS of intent on tackling climate change are no longer good enough, delegates to last week’s (Nov4-5) Royal Institute on International Affairs/Carbon Trust conference on delivering climate technology was told by a senior executive from Italy’s environment ministry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting has supported a plan to boost civil airliner access to Afghanistan airspace, offering new choices for long-haul flights from southern and east Asia to Europe. ICAO’s coordination meeting on reduced vertical separation (RVSM) implementation for the Bay of Bengal and India backed an International Air Transport Association (IATA) proposed traffic orientation scheme for commercial flights crossing the Kabul FIR.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations secretary general Kofi Annan has welcomed an agreement between the (former US President) Clinton Foundation and four pharmaceutical companies in developing countries to halve the price of anti-retroviral drugs treating HIV/AIDS. Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, of Johannesburg, South Africa; Cipla of Mumbai, India; Ranbaxy Laboratories, of Delhi, India; and Matrix Laboratories of Hyderabad, India, will cut the annual cost of drugs for each infected person to as little as US$140.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL
INDIAN soft drinks retailers on a charm offensive to repair damage caused earlier this year by a report from pressure group the Centre for Science and Environment, alleging the detection of pesticide residues in soft drink samples.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIA Tobacco Corporation (ITC) is continuing to diversify into food, announcing a new move to seize 20 per cent of caramilk sales in Tamil Nadu. The company’s food division has launched ‘Candyman Eclairs’, with spokesman Sunil S.…