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2009-01-04 India Today - Indias most widely read magazine.

There are potential sectors for trade, investment and joint ventures as engineering, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, textiles, textile machinery, chemicals, plastics and melamine and food and agri-business. Onkar S. Kanwar, Co-President, India-Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Past President, FICCI, underscored the need for liberalising the visa regime between the two countries by issuing of non-police reporting and long term multiple entry business visas.

In the agro-based food and fruit processing sectors, both the countries can gain by collaborating in post harvest technology to reduce wastages. According to Harsh Pati Singhania, Senior Vice President, FICCI, Pakistan could export to India with comparative advantage in numerous products such as cement, cotton yarn and textiles, leather products, surgical instruments, fans, water coolers, paper, molasses, vegetable and fruits.

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2009-01-04 Sensex surges to close near 10K on hopes of economic stimulus measures - International Business Times

According to government data released on Thursday, Indias wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rate fell to its lowest since March 1 to 6. 38 percent for the week ended , lower than previous weeks level of 6. 61 percent, on falling prices of food and fuel items.

Stock brokers react as they watch their trading terminal in a brokerage in Mumbai, India. The BSE Sensex surged 0. 55 percent or 54. 76 points on Friday to close up at 9958. 22 on hopes that the central bank and the government would announce fresh monetary and fiscal measures soon to boost economic growth.

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2009-01-04 Tehran times : Memo to the President: Expand the Agenda in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Regional Framework: Unfortunately, the Mumbai attacks are likely to derail any rapprochement between India and Pakistan, including over Kashmir. Yet, it is critical that your administration help the two countries deescalate the current tensions and avoid a military confrontation or a proxy war. While urging Pakistan to cooperate more fully in counterterrorism efforts, the administration should engage India in a direct and robust relationship. However tragic and destabilizing, the Mumbai attacks can inject an important sense of urgency into regional stakeholder deliberations, by showing that terrorism in any form cannot be tolerated and that a platform for multilateral engagement must be constructed.

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The magazine notes that other businesses such as grain processing dwarf ADMs ethanol business. But ethanol is in trouble, and thats not good for the food-ingredient giant. (

The company will no longer have to divest its ownership of its subsidiary, PepsiCo India Holdings. The federal Cabinet relaxed restrictions that had been imposed earlier. (

Food Roundup: China Milk Plea Denied, PepsiCo Can Keep its India Subsidiary, and More

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2009-01-04 Flood victims loot food grains from govt store

Many flood victims claim that even four months after the floods, they have not been provided adequate relief. In a bid to show the government their disappointment, many have now taken to blocking highways, rail tracks and looting food grains from stores.

Hundreds of Bihar flood victims broke into a government store in Supaul district and stole food grains to protest against the inadequate assistance provided to them by the state government, officials said on Saturday.

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2009-01-04 Rice crisis to persist as stock rises, prices fall

Overpriced inventories, protectionist trade barriers, the credit crunch and a warming planet are likely to continue standing in the way of getting the food staple to the more than 3 billion people who rely on it for basic nutrition.

As contradictory as it may seem, The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization actually projects the worlds rice inventory will rise to its highest levels since 2004 next year, thanks to a global push to plant more rice paddy.

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Next year may not bring much relief to the worlds rice-dependant populations who suffered through one of the worst food shortages in recent memory, rice trade experts believe. - World rice supply

2009-01-04 Govt trying for release of kidnapped Indian in Afghanistan-India-The Times of India

Details will not be revealed as it is a kidnap case. The Embassy is at the job. They are trying through the Government," overseas Indian affairs minister Vyalar Ravi said commenting on the abduction of Simon Paramanandam, who hails from Kalakurichi Village of Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu.

Paramanandam, who was working with an Italian food store supplying food to its soldiers in Afghanistan, was kidnapped by a militant group on last year.

He was abducted with two other employees of the company while they were delivering food at the International Security Assistance Force camp in Bagram air base in Afghanistan.

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2009-01-02 UPDATE 1-Akorn-Strides gets FDA nod for two generic antibiotics Markets US Markets Reuters

Akorn-Strides received U. S. Food and Drug Administrations approval for Sterile Vancomycin HCl 500 mg/vial, 1 g/vial and Sterile Vancomycin HCl 5 g/vial Pharmacy Bulk Package, it said.

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2009-01-02 Kazakh Presidents visit to India likely to focus on energy and food security

Agriculture employs 50 to 70 per cent of the workforce in India, and therefore, it is natural and imperative for the government of the day to lay stress on maximizing food security as well. In the last year, contribution of agricultural GDP has dropped to16 per cent in India and the percentage of hungry people in the country is 21 per cent.

One need only look at the initiatives taken on this score by the Kazakh Government in 2008 to assimilate the potential Kazakhstan offers to the world community. At the 17th annual session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly held in Astana in June, President Nazarbayev laid emphasis on cooperating on international energy and food security as an extension of promoting multilateral ties.

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New Delhi, Jan. 1 (ANI): With just three weeks to go before Kazakhstan and no. 39s President Nursultan Nazarbayev undertakes a four-day official visit to India to 26), there is a great interest on the issues that will be taken up in meetings between the leaderships of the two countries.

2009-01-02 Woman gives birth on flight to Logan - The Boston Globe

Thakkar, who was half-asleep, still tired from celebrating a wedding in India, leapt from his seat. So did Raman, who was returning from his 25th medical school reunion in India. Running to the rear of the plane, they found a woman doubled over in row 33, moaning in pain. "She was in distress," Thakkar said. "She had lots of pain and cramps in her abdomen and so when I examined her she said, Im months pregnant. "

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