Bajaj narrows choices for car pact

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Indian automobile manufacturer Bajaj Auto Ltd. is choosing among US-based Chrysler Corp., Japan's Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. and Renault SA of France as possible partners for a joint venture firm that will build base-level cars for middle-income Indians. The company had already conducted talks with two other foreign carmakers, Daihatsu Motor Corp. and Hyundai Motor Corp., but refuses to disclose the results of the negotiations. Industry sources say that Bajaj is holding out for a deal with Chrysler, which has offered to take 50% of the venture.

Motor vehicles and car bodies, Automobiles, Automobile Manufacturing, Contracts, India, Automobile industry, Bajaj Auto Ltd.

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Barbers in Tamil Nadu take battle on AIDS to customers' heads in state's pioneer program

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The state government of Tamil Nadu, India, has recruited barbers in its effort to curb the spread of AIDS. Aware that Indian men who are generally too embarrassed to buy condoms or talk about sex tend to be more relaxed in the barber's chair, the Tamil Nadu government is training barbers as counselors on safe sex practices. It is also using barbershops as distribution centers for free condoms. The AIDS problem has reached epidemic proportions in India and Tamil Nadu has the third-highest incidence of HIV infections.

Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Programs-State, Prevention, Social policy, Health policy, AIDS (Disease), Tamil Nadu, India

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