India turns Vegoil exporter after four decades
Mumbai: India, the world's largest buyer of vegetable oils, finally turned exporter last week after a gap of four decades. India had last exported vegetable oil in 1964. Since then the country's rising demand for vegetable oils has been met by rising imports, which last year had touched five million the highest in decades.
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Fair & Lovely to enter Asian and African markets
Mumbai: Fair & Lovely, a power brand of Hindustan Lever Ltd, (HLL) is present in about 20 countries worldwide through Unilever. Arun Adhikari, executive director-personal products, HLL, expressed the company's intention of entering more countries across Asia and Africa by exporting from India.
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Qantas to launch low priced carrier
Sydney: Australia's national carrier Qantas said today that it will launch a new cut-price domestic carrier called Jetstar in May 2004 and has ordered 23 Airbus A320 planes for the airline.
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Indo-German trade up 13 per cent
New Delhi: Bilateral trade between India and Germany is expected to go up by 13 per cent during the current year (January-December) at Rs 26,000 crore over last year's Rs 23,000 crore.
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Indiana to hold hearing on outsourcing deal
New York: Indiana state senate plans to hold a hearing from tomorrow on why a $15.2 million outsourcing contract was awarded to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to upgrade state computers processing unemployment claims.
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