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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
COLGATE-PALMOLIVE (India) Ltd has reported record profits after tax of IND Rupees 887 million (US$19.1 million) for 2002-3, with aggressive cost cutting more than making up for economic torpor in the country, which has hit oral-care product sales.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE PROSPECT of significant underwater monosite, ilmanite, rutile and zircon off the Sri Lankan coast has attracted the attention of 10 international companies, two from Australia, two from India and two from Sri Lanka. Their applications to mine the 11 heavy mineral seabed deposits, whose estimated worth exceeds US$330 million, are being considered by the island’s Marine Pollution Prevention Authority (MPPA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STORAGE of CO2 deep underground in uneconomic coal seams is one key option being considered by the (carbon) Sequestration Leadership Forum, which has just been joined by the European Commission. Other members are Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA’S Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has seized 45 shahtoosh shawls and two shirts, acting on information from the Wildlife Protection Society of India. The items were discovered in Delhi and included one seven metre length of uncut shahtoosh fabric.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation disputes settlement panel has dismissed claims made by India that American textile rules of origin regulations are illegal under international law. New Delhi had claimed that changes to the USA’s 1996 Uruguay Round Agreements Act broke commitments within the WTO Rules of Origin Agreement that member countries do not discriminate in favour of one trading partner.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE SCHOOL textbook and related academic reading material has been a traditionally lucrative and never-ending market for publishers. But the growing phenomenon of e-learning is opening up new dimensions in this field across the globe.

The reason is the sheer scale of future need for education in developing regions, particularly in Asia where the potential numbers of higher education students is staggering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS with many projects inspired by the start of the next 997 years and the last three, the framing of the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Development Goals was an ambitious enterprise.

Imposing statistically measurable targets for international organisations and national governments in making improvements in global poverty, education, gender equality, health, the environment and education, they have proved tough to attain.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Modicare, part of the K.K. Modi Group, is training its female sales staff in the expert use of its cosmetics, allowing then to imitate western firms by providing advice to consumers. This Beauty Brigade is to help market the company’s Essensual 20 brand of colour cosmetics and skin care products.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE PRESIDENT of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has called for the creation of a database of plants used in his country for traditional medicinal purposes, to allow them to be researched and maybe exploited by the Indian pharmaceutical industry.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Marico Industries expects that its fourth quarter turnover and profit growth to be “noticeably lower” than those recently recorded, the company has told the Bombay Stock Exchange. The company, known for its hair-care products, had earlier targeted revenue growth of around 10 per cent and bottom-line growth of around 15 per cent for 2002-03.…