COMPANIES

• Sify increases access rates
• ICI may buy other paint units
• ICI Q1 net plunges 66 percent
• Tata to launch Tetley soon
• ICICI Lombard may get IRDA nod today
• Microsoft unveils .Net curriculum in India
• Another dot com in trouble
• Tata Sons firm picks up controlling stake in Tata Fin
• SBI Caps officials under CBI probe
• Philips to pick up 47 percent stake in CG Glass
• TCS; European push
• Carrier net profit down 75 percent in Q1
• Exodus from Dunlop
• SBI Cards register 20 percent increase in losses

GENERAL

• Sale of D-segment cars on the rise
• Cable TV may get costlier

CAPITAL MARKET

• Sensex opens lower
• LIC cannot reverse MRL sale says Sebi
• NAVs of 12 UTI equity schemes below par

PEOPLE

• BPL’s Rajeev not on SBI board
• Entire BankAm investment team recruited by ING Baring
• Anne Mulcahy is CEO of Xerox Corp
• Amitabh Kant set to be new ITDC CMD