Agriculture
Al-Kabeer sets up bio-methanation unit
Automobiles
Will WTO ruling hit auto part cos?
Hind Motors to make CNG engines for buses
Banking and Finance
Loan defaulters
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Coal
Coal sector growth stifled by sickness
Commodities
Sundrop relaunched in two new variants
Corporate
Bhartiya Intl takes China route to global market
BIFR declines to accept India Rubber `sickness'
Yokogawa bags Bannari order
3 members resign from Bellary Steels board

Amol Sandil quits Ashok Leyland
Reebok import proposal gets FIPB nod
HLL sells adhesives unit to ICI India
Ear to the ground
Wipro falls on lay-off fears
Economy
Designs for high growth and income
Defence fund needs will be met: Sinha
Fertiliser scam: Who's who...
Fert sector underplays `Rs 1,000-cr scam'
I-T sops on export profits -- Assocham for 7-year phase-out
`Net capital flows to emerging markets dip'
Editorial
Accelerate power reforms
Education
Funding of education
Fertilisers
High feedstock cost hits competitiveness
Forex
War clouds threaten forex flows
Horticulture
AP to host horticulture show
Hotels
Mandarin group bid for big presence in India
Infrastructure
Govt to build 36 lakh houses every year
Miscellaneous
Goodbye 2001
Mutual Funds
US-64 repurchase at NAV after three years
On the hedge
Out-of-the-money calls meet with good demand
PSU
Plan to change sell-off takeover norm for PSUs
VSNL promoter must transfer land sale proceeds to Govt
Quits VSNL board
Petroleum
HPCL workers to strike work in Jan
Meet on APM dismantling deadlocked
Pharmaceuticals
NPPA cuts prices of 53 formulation packs
Plantations
Cardamom prices recover
Cashew exports may drop by Rs 150 cr
Pepper prices up on buying support
Politics
War or peace?

`People were fed up with mismanagement' -- Dr Saman Kelegama, ED, Institute of Policy Studies, Colombo

`But for the change, Lanka would have gone Argentina's way' -- UNP stalwart speaks out in a candid interview
Power

Supply on negotiated basis -- NTPC shoots down Petronet proposal
High growth seen in renewable energy sector
Rubber
Rubber industry upset over import curbs
RBI fiat to co-ops on rubber credit
States
25,000 Govt staff found excess in Karnataka
Stocks
Nervous operators get into defensive mode
CSE members' bid to avoid contest at poll
Market on tenterhooks -- Re loses 15 paise
Taxation
Review transfer pricing penalty provisions: FICCI
Technical Analysis
Bear domination
Telecommunications
IDBI sanctions Rs 400 crore for Batata
BSNL to cover entire Kolkata via WLL service