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Kochi, Sep 29: Describing the three-day Kerala Trade and Technology Business Show (KTTBS), which concluded here today, as ”very successful”, State Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem said potential business worth almost Rs 91 crore was generated at it.

Addressing a press conference here this evening, Mr Kareem said while there was a ”firm inquiry” from Shalimar Group, Dubai, for coir pith worth Rs 50 crore, there were other enquiries worth Rs 41 crore for other products. The major enquiries were for food and spices, handlooms and textiles, handicrafts, Ayurveda and herbal products.

The meet, organised by the state government, saw the participation of 212 national and 72 foreign buyers. The international buyers were from the UK, UAE, Thailand, Oman, Poland, Netherlands, USA, Sri Lanka and Belgium. Domestic buyers came from Maharhastra, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat and UP.

Mr Kareem said the Sri Lankan Industrial Development Board offered joint venture exports for oraganic cashew and spices while the Thai Dhonburi University offered ‘business incubation’ services for SME units.

The Kasetsart University of Thailand offered technology for R and D in virgin coconut oil, fruit vinegars and related products. Uravu Wayanad, an NGO, and Alinz Buying House had came to an agreement for procurement of bamboo products. There were also several enquiries for bulk purchase of raw spices, he said.

The meet, in which 113 sellers from Kerala took part, was aimed at creating a platform for the Kerala entrepreneurs to have a direct interaction with the buyers. It also provided them an opportunity to see the latest technological developments showcased by the foreign participants, Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce, T Balakrishnan said.

Mr Ramachandran of Shalimar Group said his Company was willing to invest Rs ten crore each in setting up ‘rural procurement centres’ in Kannur, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram to source local products for export.

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Kochi, Sep 27 : Around 300 international and domestic buyers and exhibitors will participate in the three-day Trade and Technology Business Show (TTBS) organised by the Kerala Government.

Enumerating the details of the Show, State Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem said representatives from seven sectors - food and agro processing, ayurveda and herbal, coir, handlooms, handicrafts, bamboo and screw pine and rubber and related products - would attend the event.

To be inaugurated by State Governor R L Bhatia today, the meet is organised by the Department of Industries in association with the Kerala Bureau of Industrial Promotion (K-BIP),Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation Limited (KSIDC) and Kerala Industrial Infrastructre Development Corporation (KINFRA).

The exhibitors will consist of machinery manufacturers, technology providers and research institutes. Mr Kareem said international buyers from 14 countries, including the US, UK, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia and Russia would take part.

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Kathmandu – A huge yoga camp scheduled to take place in the Nepal capital was cancelled at the last moment. Swami Ram Dev, a popular Yoga guru from India, was supposed to preach to a crowd of some 30,000 people who had registered for the event. Despite political backing and police protection the meeting was considered very dangerous to go ahead with.

The episode is indicative of the increasingly tense situation in Nepal, in prey for the past few days of clashes between Maoists and the regular army. Maoists recently quit the ruling coalition to protest against the decision not to abolish the monarchy, announcing their intention to resume their guerrilla fight until the state becomes “truly secular.”

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Bhubaneswar, Sep 23: Governor Murlidhar C Bhandare on Saturday called upon medical practitioners across fields like allopathy, homeopathy, ayurveda and other forms of alternative medicine to work unitedly towards checking the spread of rheumatism in Orissa, as the situation in the State was poor enough.

Inaugurating the third East Zone Conference of the Indian Rheumatology Association, organised by Orissa State Branch, the Governor said several misconceptions on the disease prevailed in the community as a result of which people neglected the condition at the initial stages.

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Bhubaneswar, Sep 22: Orissa Government on Saturday allotted 185.970 acres of land near Naraj Barrage in favour of Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir Trust for establishment of the proposed Sri Sri University of Art of Living.

Acting on a representation made by the Vidya Mandir Trust to allot the land at a concessional rate, the State Cabinet decided that the land be provided for the proposed university on lease subject to payment of premium of Rs 6 crore. The Vidya Mandir Trust had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the State Government on December 12 last year when the government had promised to provide land for the university project.

The MoU was signed in the presence Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir Trust was founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in 1999 as the educational wing of the Art of Living. While singing the MoU, the Trust had announced that the proposed university will be a multi-disciplinary world class institution with a blend of both traditional and modern.

The university, which will have separate centres of excellence in various fields of education, will offer courses in subjects ranging from ayurveda and yoga to biotechnology and aviation.

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New Delhi, Sep 20 - Using yoga to treat a disease is just another example of using nanotechnology in medicine, according to leading yoga and spiritual guru Swami Ramdev.

‘In yoga, we use breathing techniques to treat a disease. This provides oxygen to the affected parts of the body,’ said Ramdev during a talk on science and spirituality ‘Bridging the gap: Nanohealth’, held as part of the fifth global knowledge millennium summit on bio and nano technology here Thursday.

‘Just as nanotechnology has the potential to send nano particles within the body system to seek out and treat afflicted parts, pranayam in yoga sends oxygen to the remotest parts inside the body which need oxygen for cure,’ he said.

Peter Grutter, professor of Physics in Canada’s McGill University and a world leader in nanotechnology research, who was the other main panellist in the discussion, appreciated Ramdev’s use of yoga in curing diseases. Read the rest of this entry »

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Kerala, Sep 19: Amid noisy scenes due to the ISRO land deals issue, the House passed the Kerala Police (Amendment) Bill, 2007 and The Kerala Ayurveda Health Centres (Issue of Licence and Control) Bill, 2007.

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Patiala, Punjab, India: Punjab Medical education and research minister Tikshan Sud inaugurated the newly formed Directorate of Ayush at the Government Ayurvedic College on Saturday. He said the creation of the directorate would provide an impetus to science of ayurveda in the state. He added that from now onwards, all ayurvedic colleges in the state would fall under the jurisdiction of this directorate. Elaborating, Sud said the department would be for the betterment of research of ayurveda and its further education.

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Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev said India was already a super power from the social and cultural point of view but it should also be an economic super power. To achieve this, the concept of Swadeshi should be promoted.

He further said by promoting Yoga and ayurveda, annual expenditure of Rs 5,00,000 crore on health services and allopathic drugs trade could be cut down by 50 per cent and the huge amount of money saved thereby could be used for the country’s development. The Yoga Guru also said population control and planned economic development were essential to make India a super power.

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– Company to roll out chain of Ayurvedic clinics across the nation; to invest more than Rs. 10 crores by 2009 –

New Delhi, September 13, 2007: Banking on the splurge that the alternative medicine industry is witnessing and the ongoing retail boom in the country, Goodcare Pharma, is planning to roll out series ayurvedic clinics across the country in the coming years. The company is in talks with the leading real-estate/malls developers to set shops and aims to set up 50 such outlets by 2009 investing more than Rs. 10 crores for its expansion. The ayurvedic clinics, apart from offering consultation services, will also offer ayurvedic drugs and over-the-counter (OTC) formulations.

The decision is largely based to tap the younger generation and Goodcare, as part of its strategy to target youth, is charting out plans to enter the retail space in a big way. “While youth are a large target segment for us, we feel that inertia often prevents converting interest into purchase. We hence as part of our strategy aim to be present at high traffic malls to increase brand visibility. This also allows us to create a brand world at our retail spaces through touch and feel factors; as communicating the benefits of Ayurveda, in a context where consumers are receptive to brand messages, becomes extremely important,” says Ms. Tania Sharma, Director, Goodcare Pharma & a Director on the board of Sri Baidyanath Ayurved Bhawan Pvt. Ltd.

The judgment seems to be in sync as long working hours, eating out, stress, lack of exercise, and the mounting social pressures are increasingly taking toll on the youth. Given the severity of the problem, research has shown that many youngsters are being forced into seeking all kinds of remedies and strangely enough, a large section of the youth are now going back to remedies that have been long forgotten - Ayurveda.

Given this trend, which is matched also by a global trend in developed countries toward ayurveda; many manufacturers are becoming extremely serious about their presence in this market. The company has earlier launched a range of products in its stable and it markets life style solution products like Stress Guard, Neem Guard, Gas Guard, ConstiGuard, Spirulina Plus, Hazamcare etc.

It is estimated that the total value of products from the entire ayurvedic production in India is on the order of one billion dollars (U.S.). The Indian Planning Commission estimates massive potential increases in this export volume, to Rs. 100 billion by 2010.

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