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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE ALL-INDIA Ice-cream Manufacturers’ Association has launched a campaign to erase a 35 per cent dip in winter sales, even though Indian winter maximums hover in the 20Cs. A spokesman for ice-cream parlour company Nirulas said: “Most of us have this notion that eating ice-cream in winters will make us sick.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
LOW uranium prices that are encouraging the international nuclear power industry are giving little incentive for the uranium mining industry to develop new sources, Gerald Grandey, President of Cameco Corporation, the Canada-based world’s uranium producer has said.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government will spend IND Rupees 340 million on developing a National Cattle Breeding and Development Agency for Cross Breeding in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The agency is to provide facilities including artificial insemination, frozen semen straws and basic facilities for breeders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDIAN producer of stainless steel wire is facing the reimposition of 55.6 per cent European Union anti-dumping duties, after it failed to cooperate with an investigation it had instigated, aimed at avoiding the tariff. Garg Sales Co.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
VRS Foods, of India, is setting up a new ice cream plant in Uttar Pradesh so it can launch the new Paras brand on the Delhi market. The line’s price will match Mother Dairy’s ice-cream, and be cheaper than market leader Kwality Walls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN the New Year is upon us, pessimists tend to herald the approach of apocalypse, gloomy tidings and battening down the hatches. And in a year that may see war in the Middle East, the naysayers may say more in 2003 than usual.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA and African countries have called for food health import controls allowed by WTO rules to be weakened regarding developing country exporters, claiming they are so tough and bureaucratic, they prevent them exporting healthy food.…

BY MARK ROWE
WARS are usually fought over coveted resources, such as oil, diamonds or fertile land. Now water, the most indispensable of mankind’s needs, is seen as the resource which may spark the armed conflicts of the 21st century.

Indeed, United Nations (UN) cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO is stepping up efforts to calm tension in some of the world’s most water-stressed areas.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Council for Leather Exports has expressed disappointment over the recommendations of an Indian government industry task force, which has suggested cutting tax and duty exemptions. The council said that export promotion schemes such as advance licensing, the Duty Entitlement Pass Book and the Export Promotion Capital Goods exemption had been introduced to offset some of the cost disadvantages for Indian exporters.…

BY MARK ROWE
VIETNAM’S first commercial gas production, a US$1.3 billion project, began last month (November). The venture, between BP and India’s ONGG Videsh, is based in the Lan Tay and Lan Do fields of the Nam Con Son basin, 224 miles off southern Vietnam.…