Milk retailers might be slapped a hefty fine for spiking prices by 27% over the past 21 months, if India’s competition watchdog finds them guilty of cartelisation.

Doctors and nutritionists have long recommended avoiding all animal fats to trim cholesterol, but Danish researchers say cheese may not be so bad, and probably shouldn’t be placed in the same category as butter. According to their study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, people who ate daily servings of cheese for sixweek intervals had lower LDL cholesterol, the so-called “bad” cholesterol, than when they ate a comparable amount of butter.
The cheese eaters also did not have higher LDL during the experiment than when they ate a normal diet.

Fresh milk delivered at your doorstep, minus any polluting plastic pouches.
In a nod to environment conservation, the state animal husbandry department has decided to deliver fresh milk to households every morning through insulated tanks that will dispense half a litre at the press of a button, and would cost a rupee less than the milk available in plastic packets.

Named “mobile milk dispensing system”, the milk carrying tanks would be mounted on rickshaws and handed over to delivery staff who will sell it, while going from one locality to another in about a month.

Ludhiana: With export of wool and wool blended items from the country dropping 12 per cent (in rupee terms) in 2010-11, the Wool and Woollens Export Promotion Council (WWEPC) has requested to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Textiles to fextend the duty exemption pass book (DEPB) scheme. The scheme is due to expire on September 30.