Agriculture
MSP fails to arrest fall in copra prices
IGC sees decline in wheat output
Plea to stop palm oil sales
Airlines
Ministry keen on AI flights to Frankfurt
Aquaculture
Workshop on bio-tech tools in shrimp management
Automobiles
Maini group ties up with Renault
Joint venture workers have joined strike: Maruti union
Banking and Finance
Janki Ballabh to head SBI
Good response to IMD scheme in UAE
SBI targets 40 pc rise in personal advances
Federal Bank plans to launch broking arm
Gilts market remains dull
Self-regulation for NBFCs: Back to square one
Commodities
Karnataka share in cashewnut exports declines to 5 pc
Dull trading continues in leather
Corporate
Hinduja Fin okays ESOP for ALIT
SPIC's NCD downgraded to default category
Adhesives unit sell-off for strategic reasons: Coates MD
Crisil downgrades Xerox Modi's NCD
Concor (SR) turnover may touch Rs 120 cr
Tatas defer final move on Total venture
Enhancement Tech plans 750 `seats'
Havell's executes Iraqi export order
Kitply sugar unit expansion over
UTI offloads entire stake in CUMI
Andersen Consulting to expand Indian operations
Courts
SC ruling on gift tax on retiring partner
Economy
Three big ticket items pull up export growth
Re-striking roots
Washington consensus -- II: Fallout of interest rate, trade policies
Editorial
Troubling data
Fast track
Crisil: Riding an uptrend
Financial Performance
Otis Q3 net down
Rallis suffers Rs 5.90-cr loss in Q2
Texmaco sales up in Q2
Tube Investments' turnover, net up
Compucom H1 net up 53 pc
KLG Systel Q3 net up 70 pc
Dhanalakshmi Bank net up 28 pc
LIC Housing net at Rs 27 cr
Food & Dairy Products
Aid for State co-ops to set up new business entities -- NDDB to set up auction market in Bangalore
Call for traditional dairy items
Foreign Trade
CII team to visit Latin America
UK Minister coming
Forex
Sans support, euro plumbs new lows
Rupee slide continues; falls to 46.74/75
Horticulture
Medicinal Plants Board to be formed soon
Impact
MRPL: Unlikely to enthuse
Crompton Greaves: Shedding flab, but...
GIPCO: Shutdown woes
Information Technology
RBI seeks purchase details in Hughes Tele.com
Silverline acquires SeraNova for $99m
Apara Design focus on storage solutions business
HYSEA to open offices in Tokyo, Singapore
Global Tele signs pact with Cisco
An IT quiz contest for `truly rural'
JobsAhead plans to tap US market
`Billing emerging as key e-proposition'
Bandwidth succumbs to Murphy's law
New VP for Amoeba telecom
IEC Softwares bags Rs 250-cr project
Equity market info soon from Credence
Infrastructure
FAO moots solar energy for rural uplift
Miscellaneous
Invocation to a Goddess
Mutual Funds
GW Capital set to launch venture fund
Franklin, Templeton MFs to synergise styles
JM Mutual plans to launch ethical fund
UTI to network 100 branches
Paper/Packaging
HC vacates stay on jute packaging
Petrochemicals
MRPL to export furnace oil to Singapore
Plantations
Fair demand at Kochi tea sale
Power
Standby charges -- Pay up or face cut-off, TEC tells BSES
BHEL loses in Chinese checkers
NTPC Ramagundam's green policy pays
Shipping
TN ports top Kochi in marine exports
Petronet LNG shipping deal -- Gesco drops SK Shipping-Samsung, joins hands with Exmar
States
Assam Govt warned against diverting Central funds meant for Tribal welfare
Chennai central excise Web site
Chattisgarh HC to be at Bilaspur
Stocks
New SEBI notification -- Foreign cos, individuals can invest via FIIs
SSI, Infosys, HCL Tech elude bear hug
Listless show continues
Online trading `slow' on the uptake
Taxation
Sanction for evasion
Dead tape
Empower the people
When is interest payable?
Kaun Banega Crorepati? -- For sure, it's I-T Dept
Customs yield short of target
Technical Analysis
Uptrend continues
Textiles
Cotton textiles exports may register 7 pc growth
Transport
`Leasing out counter-productive' -- TN asks Centre to clear Chennai airport upgrade
Travel & Places
Tourist entry fee hike upsets operators
