Automobiles
Mobikes, plastic-bodied scooters gaining ground
THE metal-bodied geared scooters and mopeds are heading towards extinction in the Indian two-wheeler market, the second largest in the world which produces virtually all types of two-wheelers.

Environment
Complex `fibres' in asbestos study
THE Union Government's recent decision to get all health risk issues related to production and use of asbestos examined by an expert committee has to be viewed against the backdrop of steps either already initiated or proposed to be taken by a number of countries to ban manufacture and/or use of the material.

Pharmaceuticals
Healthy smoke signals for pharma cos
SMOKE is out and health is in. As India's population wakes up to the dangers of smoking, a slew of pharmaceutical majors are hoping to rake in moolah out of the `health is wealth' mantra and are launching products guaranteed to make habitual smokers ``ki ck'' nicotine addiction.

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