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...scandal that has the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh buzzing. In early March, Hindustan Latex, a company owned by India's national government, began selling a battery-operated vibrating ring packaged with three of its "Crezendo" brand condoms that supposedly provides added stimulation for both partners. One of the main reasons cited for low condom usage in India is "lack of pleasure in the usage of the condom," says Hindustan Latex spokesman S. Jayaraj. "The vibrating ring provided with the condom was introduced as a pleasure enhancer" in order to encourage their use, thus helping stem the country's burgeoning...
...Kailash Vijayavargiya, a state minister in Madhya Pradesh, is outraged by the product. He claims the vibrating ring qualifies not as a contraceptive but as a sex toy - illegal in his state - and has accused Hindustan Latex, and by extension India's national government, of immorality. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week calling for a ban on the sale of the condoms, Vijayavargiya says the government "has disregarded rules, regulations, the country's laws and morality. Sex toys can have serious repercussions on the Indian way of life...
...minute joyride through the realms of vibrating pleasure." Indeed, Hindustan Latex has sold about 130,000 of the $3 packs in the three months since it released them. That's good news in the fight against HIV/AIDS, says company spokesman Jayaraj, who says if the state government of Madhya Pradesh demands the product's withdrawal, the company would happily stop selling it there immediately...
...diaspora has spread beyond Silicon Valley. Indian-born executives have in recent years taken the reins at some of the world's biggest companies. Arun Sarin, a native of Madhya Pradesh in central India, is CEO of Britain's Vodafone. Three months ago, Indra Nooyi was named CEO of PepsiCo after serving five years as the U.S. beverage giant's CFO. Indians have credibility as managers, says Hemant Luthra, head of the Systems & Automotive Technologies division at Indian car-and-tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra. This was not always so. Luthra remembers visiting Hong Kong in 1991 when India's government...
...prison on the outskirts of the city. Authorities would like to send them to forests in neighboring states, but many are refusing to accept the animals. India's Supreme Court stepped in last month, ordering that 300 entrapped monkeys be transferred to a forest in the central state of Madhya Pradesh...