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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE ANIMAL rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has taken its battle against Kentucky Fried Chicken to India, demonstrating in Bangalore outside a branch of the fast food chain. One activist was dressed as a crippled chicken, to the bemusement of passers-by.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
CALLS for an injection of foreign investment in the Indian tobacco sector have been opposed by the India Tobacco Corporation chairman, who said he was surprised that the idea is supported by some growers. Y.C. Deveshwar told a discussion session with farmers at the Central Tobacco Research Institute, Rajahmundry, that he opposed the entry of foreign companies, saying it would “harm the interests of Indian farmers”, the Hindu Business Line has reported.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INCREASED international availability of cashews and a consequent price slump reduced Indian exports by more than INDRupees 500 million (US$10.9 million) this year. Total exports of the nut April-June 2003 were 21,192 tonnes, compared with 23,770 tonnes the same period in 2002.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED Nations body established to settle claims made against Iraq because of its illegal occupation of Kuwait in 1991 has awarded a further US$315 million in compensation, bringing the total amount of money paid out under its authority to US$46.6 billion.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
HINDUSTAN Lever has been trying to persuade Indian parents to buy Multiaction Surf, by offering the means to avoid washing their children’s clothes altogether – a foreign school scholarship. The slightly ironic promotional scheme ‘Colour Your Future’ asks children to enter a competition by painting a picture based on what they wants to achieve in adulthood; paintings have to be titled: “I want to be…” Hindustan Lever has been offering fixed deposits of between INDRupees 100,000 (US$2,173) and 500,000 (US$10,863) for zonal and national winners, respectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) agency has concluded that chewing betel quid causes cancer, whether or not tobacco is included in the ‘pan’ mix especially popular with ethnic south Asians. It came to the same conclusion regarding another popular chewing ingredient, the areca nut.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INCREASED international availability of cashews and a consequent price slump reduced Indian exports by more than INDRupees 500 million (US$10.9 million) this year. Total exports of the nut April-June 2003 were 21,192 tonnes, compared with 23,770 tonnes the same period in 2002.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
AN INDIAN metal consultancy has warned that India must rapidly develop scrap aluminium recycling plants, because primary production will fail to cope with growing demand for the metal in the future.

Ranchi-based group Mecon Ltd has said that in the long term, the situation could become very dire, assuming Indian aluminium consumption increases to 3.5 kg per person per year by the middle of the century.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDEPENDENT World Bank inspection panel has criticised the development body for flouting its own guidelines regarding the Coal Sector Environmental and Social Mitigation Project in India, which led to the relocation of families from the Parej East mining region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is lending US$15 million’s worth of Indian rupees to sugar company Balrampur Chini Mills Limited, partially financing the construction of a new integrated greenfield sugar mill, processing 4,000 tons of cane a day, in Haidergarh, Uttar Pradesh.…