Advertising & Marketing
Study throws up consumption data on durables, FMCGs -- MICA's Urban Market Ratings to aid marketers
Shaw Wallace to uncork Lal Toofan in India -- To focus on gains in strong beer segment
Smirnoff targets top slot in premium segment
Sauder's Chennai showroom to down shutters
Agriculture
China may import record soyabean
Safeguards in Bio-diversity Bill
Airlines
HAL plans flying hospital variant of ALH
Auditing
KPMG to be choosy in taking equity in start-ups
Automobiles
Delphi Automotive to set up software centre in Bangalore
Hyundai plans third shift to meet demand
Banking and Finance
UTI Bank signs MoU with Quantum Info
SBI Chennai circle deposits up 23%, advances 19%
Dena's total business crosses Rs 20,000 cr
GTB plans insurance foray -- Life product distribution for starters
Indian Bank a rudderless ship, says union
Insurance entry -- RBI norm shocks NBFCs in Chennai
United Western looking for foreign equity partner -- KPMG given the mandate
Corporate
Corporate briefs
PWC to value Topsgrup as prelude to expansion
Residency chain to expand
Cauvery Sugars, EID Parry merger imminent
BIFR unhappy over delay in JK Cotton Spinning revival
Beacon Weir lock-out may be lifted soon
Bajaj Auto net up 13 pc at Rs. 613 cr
BOC plans Rs 40 cr provision for dues
Bajaj, Honda agree not to poach staff, dealers
Brand ambassadors or brand blushes?
Filing of annual returns and accounts -- Govt proposes to extend amnesty to defaulting cos
VST turns around, to pay Re 1
BIFR likely to be replaced
Courts
Additional Principal CLB Bench in Chennai
Economy
INFLATION WATCH
UP to get World Bank aid for strengthening reforms
Kerala objects to finance panel suggestion
Issues on optimum population size
FOMC: Unbelievers in the new paradigm?
Editorial
Sweet-bitter
Fast track
Will Fed meet lend direction?
Foreign Trade
Mauritius-based FII investments at Rs 12,595 cr
Forex
No doomsday for Indian markets
Impact
L&T: Postponed revamp may not help
Avery India: Doubts over open offer
Information Technology
LS nod for IT Bill -- Task forces to deal with cyber crimes
Nasscom sees jump in e-com deals
HCL Info with Infocus launches new projector
IT briefs
Alcatel products
EmpowerTel, LGSI to set up new co
Satyam Computer, CA in alliance
`Grey' cellphone areas spotted
TMI Network ties up with CareerMosaic
Medical portal launched
Infrastructure
Concor may launch coastal shipping
Moving products Essar Steel way
CSL completes repair works on m.v. Andenet
Miscellaneous
Thanjavur Tex Agoor unit to be shut
Japanese banks -- Credit crunch or liquidity trap?
Language press
Second thoughts on coffee retention
`Sizzling plains perfect theatre for monsoon act'
Paper/Packaging
Paper Products chalks out Rs. 30-cr expansion plan
Traders want `discipline' in paper price revision
Petroleum
Cairn Energy finds gas off Gujarat
Plantations
Plantation cos told to close, pay up investors
Policy
Parliament nod for Constitution Amendment Bill
Politics
Constitution review: The economist's perspective
Power
Security for power trade -- PTC to offer only a month's bill
Vijayanagar Thermal Power Station -- Karnataka rejects Enron's proposal for gas-based plant
Electricity Bill referred to GoM
States
West Bengal Plan size fixed
IOC projects in Bengal to be over by 2003
AP Telecom to cut Net access rates
Early detection cardiac scan centre in Delhi
Orissa to unveil new industrial policy
Steel
Steel Ministry publication released
Stocks
LYONS RANGE
A lack-lustre day, awaiting Fed decision
Technical Analysis
Downtrend in danger
Telecommunications
Hughes Tele plans Rs 750-cr IPO
Textiles
Centre to review textile EOUs' deals under DTA
