COMPANIES

• VSNL divestment before elections
• Essar  to hike stake through rights issue
• Symantec in pact with Zenith Computers
• IOC improves Fortune-500 ranking
• IPCL, Herdillia tie up for polybutene
• Hoechst Q-1 sales down
• Delay at Reliance Petro Jamnagar refinery
• Delhi civic body bars Kwality pushcarts
• Satyam profit up
• Sterling Commerce to invest in Satyam unit
• Mastek offers shares to staff
• Reliance ends polypropylene exports
• Shasun to supply ibuprofen to Boots
• Hindujas' Vizag power project facing problems
• Bharat Electronics for JV to make ICs
• Gulf Oil plans plant in south
• Government okay for M&M's Scorpio project
• Buyback liberalised
• Moody's downgrades Mitsubishi rating
• Royal & Sun buying Orion
• Apple to launch new notebook
• Daewoo to sell stake in unit
• SocGen rejects BNP offer

GENERAL

• IT notices to airline ticketing companies
• JT Mobile arm for a patch-up with DoT
• FIPB approves Siemens' proposal
• RBI panels unified
• 19 investment banks in fray for Hudco securitisation

CAPITAL MARKET

• Stock market spurred by Kargil developments
• Sebi removes exemption margin

PEOPLE

• Garrick D'Silva is Whirlpool of India CMD