COMPANIES

• United Distillers' plea to import liquor concentrate rejected
• Wipro, KPN in joint venture
• Essar Oil to forfeit 61.9 million equity shares
• GE to market Satyam product in US
• German Remedies, Ethypharm in tie-up
• ICIL in strategic pacts with Oracle, Microsoft
• SRG Infotech buys PC Point
• 23% growth rate for TVS Suzuki
• Permit given to Nippon withdrawn
• Go2Net acquires Dogpile
• Sega ties up with AT&T for webgame
• Regulator tells Daewoo to sell good units first
• Microsoft founder to invest in telecom company
• DaimlerChrysler to reduce board strength

GENERAL

• IDBI to resume lending to NBFCs
• IDBI, ICICI record low net asset growth
• Rupee at lowest against dollar
• SBI preparing for virtual banking: Vaidya
• Indian Bank to roll over MF arm's scheme
• Public issue from SBI Caps
• IA shortlists aircraft for fleet replacement
• 20 million income tax payers by 2001
• CSIR targets 1000 patents a year
• 10-year paper auction over-subscribed

CAPITAL MARKET

• Pharma shares rule
• Ranbaxy scrip at all-time high
• UTI restructures investment portfolio
• Demat requests to be cleared by 15 August
• Sebi suspends Sony Securities licence
• BOLT system to be expanded
• Demat kiosk in Rajkot
• Mutual fund NAVs outperform Sensex, Nifty
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PEOPLE

• Chandrasekhar, Bhatia on Sebi panel on venture fund
• Pandit of SBI Cards quits to join Visa