Advertising & Marketing
Eco-friendly fabrics
Mattel Fisher-Price launches Smartronics
Fabmart's new offer
Emami-Madhuri hair care range to hit market in Feb.
Wheat glut may ease pressure off biscuit makers
A tryst with virtual history of world events and personalities -- Mahatma missing in portal floated by Gujarat co
Airlines
AI likely to record Rs 35-cr net loss
Automobiles
Bajaj Auto VRS to trim workforce
Bajaj Auto: Eyeing stake in MUL?
Banking and Finance
RBI annual report 1999-00 prefers status quo
RIBs pose larger economic questions
RBI disposable income up 109 pc
Special cell for Govt, RBI coordination on weak banks
PM to address bankers' meet on Aug 30
PNB scheme for finance against immovable property
Aggregate deposits with commercial banks up 4.6 pc
Annual numbers game
Consumer Electronics
Konka India to be split into marketing, production cos
Corporate
Ford India to expand dealer network
IISL launches Millennium Index
`Managing growth is big challenge in IT sector'
Product portfolio expansion -- BEML in talks with MNCs
Graphite India mulls capacity hike
Sigma Corp sets up rubber parts plant
SHCIL to appoint global consultant for product mix
Punjab Engineering wind-up proposed
Shriram Group venture with CGM Printshop
SKM Animal Feeds bags NPC award
Heavy trading witnessed in Tata Engg scrip
Tata Chem AGM resolutions okayed
Courts
SC ruling on rights of foreign decree holder
Cafeteria workers are staff of university, rules SC
Economy
Utilise the food mountain to fight rural impoverishment
Combined GFD of Centre, States up 9.9%: RBI report
Eleventh Finance Commission -- An opportunity missed
The man who put crunch in candy
Guard against swings in portfolio flows: RBI -- Building forex reserves as cushion advocated
Implementation is the key
President's assent for three Bills
Editorial
The RBI chant
Fast track
Tata Tea: Retaining the flavour
Fertilisers
Fund to help naphtha-based fertiliser units upgrade
Urea self-sufficiency: Govt view termed `untenable'
Financial Performance
SHCIL net profit up 45%, to pay Rs. 2.25
Padmini Tech net up 127%
Forex
Rupee gains 10 paise
Impact
ITC Bhadrachalam: Lowering the debt burden
Dabur, HCL Tech: Useful stock-splits
TNPL: Organic growth
Information Technology
5-year cap for 74% FDI stake in e-com ventures
Hughes Tele IPO to be at premium
Lara Networks plans to set up design centre
MBT set to drive into used car segment
Wipro launches e-com services in India
IT cos battle with job ad responses
KPMG launches Net risk management services
IT in India
Infrastructure
Vallarpadam container terminal -- Cochin Port Trust to discuss P&O bid
NHAI asks Haldia dock to share 4-laning cost
Insurance
Royal Sundaram files for non-life licence
Miscellaneous
British media vitriol and the Kursk tragedy
Media institute opened in Chennai
Petroleum
Kazakhhstan: Trying to find its feet
RPL starts diesel exports
Govt may review LPG control order
Economy better placed to face oil import bill
Pharmaceuticals
Ranbaxy launches cardiac drug in US
Plantations
Pepper demand-supply disparity concerns growers
Plantation sector to debate post-WTO strategy
Politics
New BJP chief: Beginning on the right note
Power
$1.3-billion Mangalore power project -- Karnataka guarantee plan rejected
SSI
Capability development mission for SSIs
Policy package for SSIs likely
Shipping
VPT plans fresh global tenders for ship unloaders
Time charter of LNG vessels makes major changes in bid terms
States
Operation Veerappan
`Kerala must go for optical fibre network'
Kerala seeks Rs. 100 cr flood relief
KSIA plans research lab in Dakshina Kannada
Export development fund planned in N-E
States responses for draft ST Code by Sept 15
First wind energy project in Bengal
Stocks
Nifty futures trading on Singapore exchange from Sept
Usha Beltron, Vikas WSP in limelight
Taxation
FICCI for comprehensive service tax act
Tea
Tea exports to hover around 190 mkg
Technical Analysis
Nifty turns sideways
Telecommunications
R&D project under way on hi-tech optical fibre
STD, ISD to cost less from Oct 1
DTO mobile services by March 2001
Transport
DPE sets off price war in express courier market
