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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 SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A DEAL over financing the construction of a proposed Bangalore international airport in southern India has been delayed beyond its original September deadline. A Siemens-led consortium has yet to sign a concession agreement and is waiting for amendments to Indian aviation legislation to pass through the national parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

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 and KEITH NUTHALL
CERAMIC manufacturers in Sri Lanka are seeking changes in national laws restricting the quarrying of paddy lands, because they contain premium deposits of kaolin. The country’s Ceramics Industry Task Force has asked its national government to revoke certain provisions of the Agrarian Development Act, which ban the mining of paddy lands, even if they are not being used for agriculture or have ceased to be viable for food production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CREATING finished leather from tanned leather, (in its wet state), is not sufficiently important a manufacturing process to warrant the final product being legally considered a new good, made in the country where it was processed rather than where it was sourced, the chairman of a special World Trade Organisation committee has advised.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
BATA India Ltd has launched three new lines for Indian consumers. Two are for men: ‘Wind,’ with air circulation features, and ‘Flexible’ whose design reflects foot contours; and one for women: ‘Comfort,’ which has cushioned spring-pads and a cantilever sole design.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDIAN hire-purchase company has been lent IND Rupees 840, (US$17 million), by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, so it can widen the financial services it offers India’s rural and semi-urban communities, notably to sell insurance policies.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A COMPUTERISED translation tool has been developed by India’s Department of Information Technology, which will allow publishers to scan copy written in one of the country’s varied languages and scripts and translate it into another tongue. Its Optical Character Recognition scans printed or even hand-written text and converts it into a computer processable format, from which translations can be generated.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is lending US$108.2 million to a project improving the management of tropical hardwood forests in Andhra Pradesh, India. This investment will be focused in 14 of the poorest districts of the state, covering 3.86 million hectares of forest.…