COMPANIES

• HLL takes brand wars to countryside
• Birla Sun Life gets in-principle nod
• Exide flags off Hosur plant operations
• Oswal to foray into manufacture of garments
• Coca-Cola to sell milk-based beverage to kids
• Cipla slashes price of anti-AIDS drug

CAPITAL MARKET

• Mastek flashes first profit warning

PEOPLE

• Mr Vandrewala elected chairman of NASSCOM