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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9941)	12/6/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

Mohan: Miss India wins world title LONDON, Dec 5: The new Miss World 20-year-old Yukta Mookhey from India said on Sunday she was looking forward to promoting Indian-style tolerance in her new high-profile position. But Mookhey, who beat 92 other contestants on Saturday night, had harsh words for women's rights campaigners, who stood outside the venue waving placards reading: "Stop this sexist cattle market." "I have little time for feminists who say doing this degrades a woman's dignity," she declared. Mookhey pocketed œ60,000 ($96,000) prize money for winning the title. Martina Thorogood, a 24-year-old from Venezuela, was second, and Sonia Raciti, 21, from South Africa was third. Mookhey said she thought India would be "extremely happy". "I am an ambassador for India now. I am young and raring to go," she told reporters at a photo session. The glitzy ceremony on Saturday night was judged by former Miss World winners as well as Miss World admirers, world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis and Formula One racing driver Eddie Irvine, who said he wanted to marry every one of the contestants. A 12-month whirl of social events around the world now awaits the former zoology graduate. Mookhey was groomed for the title by her beauty-school director mother. She is the fourth Indian to win the Miss World title after Rita Faria in 1962, Aishwarya Rai in 1994 and Diana Hayden in 1997.-AFP

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9941)	12/7/1999 1:33:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12475

GE to set up R&D centre in Bangalore 07-12-1999 09:21:58 Multinational General Electric (GE) is setting up a $40 million research centre in Bangalore. Called GE India Technology Centre, the project is considered to be one of the country`s largest multi-disciplinary research centres. To be completed in September 2000, GE India Technology Centre is a strategic investment by GE to provide critical technology and R&D for its global businesses. The centre will form an integral part of GE`s global R&D resources and expertise while working closely with the company?s corporate R&D centre in Schenectady, New York. It will provide leading-edge research, development and engineering support to GE`s diverse global businesses. Source - Economic Times