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 Beijing buys Indian loos for Olympics
New Delhi: Come next year’s Beijing Olympics, and tens of thousands organisers, delegates and sportsmen from across the globe will be using “Made in India” portable toilets to relieve themselves.
Sintex, a leading Indian plastic products manufacturer, has joined hands with British firm Poly John International Limited to produce portable toilets for the mega event in August 2008.
“The portable toilets will be manufactured in India and will be transported to Beijing,” said Bob Macrae, international sales director of Poly John.
“The benefit of manufacturing it in India is immense. We get the desired quality, the people here speak the same language as we, and the cost of shipment to China is much lesser,” Macrae said.
Israeli mates for Kerala cows
KOCHI: Hit by a huge shortfall in milk production, Kerala is all set to import pedigreed Holstein Friesians and Jersey bulls from Israel to crossbreed with its own cows.
The state, which consumes 2.1 million litres of milk daily, will import 20 bulls from Israel.
“We will soon place a global tender for these bulls to crossbreed with a selected group of cows in order to increase milk production," Kerala Animal Husbandry Minister C Diwakaran said in New Delhi.
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