Accountancy
Loose ends
A rear-view drive
Agriculture
Income insurance scheme `orphaned' -- Agriculture Minister rejects grain buy plan to replace MSP model
Ministry seeks green light for irrigation reforms
Airlines
Air India -- Bailout instead of disinvestment?
Airlines allowed to fly more passengers
Polar flights to US mulled
Jet Airways to operate services on 2 new routes
Automobiles
Kinetic eyes competitive edge with cost cutting
GF rides away with honours
New Holland wheels into lower HP segment
Banking and Finance
New online messaging system for banks
Moody's may upgrade SBI deposit rating
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Cement
Move to boost liquidity of stock -- Shiva Cement to go in for stock split, bonus
Coal
States lax in checking out coal mafia
Commodities
Nov oilmeal exports up
Additional levy hits TN edible oil trade
Corporate
HLL meet clears hike in FII cap, bonus debentures
HLL board okays transfer of seed business
Haldia Petro shuts plant; may resume tomorrow
Secretarial standard on board meetings
Reliance non-committal on Dabhol unit bid
Vikram Amin is Essar Steel ED
Birla Electricals, Italian co in marketing pact
Reuters market data over Net for Indians abroad

Meet okays HLL FII limit, bonus debenture
Kolkata's business spots on the block
Sandvik AB makes open offer at Rs 850
IOC divests stake in Indo-Mobil
Cussons seeks waiver on divestment clause
Ear to the ground
MERC order may trip Tata Power
Economy
ADB to grant $411.5 m loan for core sector
Roots of recession
Industrial growth slumps to 1.9 pc in Oct
Move to give more teeth to money laundering law
Editorial
Go gasohol
Education
Sinha to inaugurate CA South chapter meeting
Clicking on an idea for hi-techs future
Fertilisers
2.2 lakh t urea imported so far
Food & Dairy Products
National animal feed meet in Bangalore
Foreign Trade

Tajikistan keen on trade with India
Hotels

ITDC staff protest
Impact
Sierra Optima : Termination of orders
Sandvik Asia: Mop-up operations
Hindustan Lever: An irrelevant seedling
Information Technology
Bangalore to host meet on cyber laws
WeP works 20 days a month
Pruning at IBM Global
GTL top brass agree to 25 pc pay cut
Infrastructure
Leveraging on capacity

`FDI in townships less than 100 acres likely'
Miscellaneous

Worldwide trade in women
Off the ticker
Block deals in Venky's India
On the hedge
Positive outlook on VSNL, Reliance Petro?
Petroleum
EU move to promote use of bio-fuel
IOC seeks review of pact with RPL
ONGC well not yet capped
Pharmaceuticals
Dr Reddy's joint venture to make India processing hub
Plantations
Cardamom rules steady
Pepper prices move up on buying support, short supply
Power
PTC seeks nod to sell surplus power of SEBs
Securitisation of WBSEB dues cleared
Radio/TV
Panel to formulate regulatory code for broadcasters
Rubber
Rubber market steady
No cess on rubber used for export
States
Bengal jute TUs to go on strike
CNG dispensing system in Delhi
Kerala to sign MoU with Centre for funds
Steel
New US import curbs on steel in the offing
OECD steel meet next week
Stocks
Chips up for top-rung IT stocks in dull trade
Overseas listing plans fuel rally in Orient Info?
SEBI and market
Public sector banks
Technical Analysis
Bears dominate
Technology
Park culture
Biotech catching on
Telecommunications
Opening up international long-distance telephony -- For VSNL, the party is over
Terrorism
Poto problems
Textiles

Indian yarn to figure in global index
3 NTC units in TN suspend operation
Cotton textiles, yarn exports register negative growth
Transport
SER to run 5 winter specials