COMPANIES

• A V Birla Group too to bid for CMC
• Philips Software to hire more
• Bharti-Whirlpool customer support tie-up
• Nortel to invest 4 billion dollars in India, hire more
• Dual fuel taxi from Telco
• ICICI, IDBI grapple with asset-liability gap
• British Gas buys Pipavav LNG port
• UTI to scale down exposure in equities

GENERAL

• Cabinet okays Convergence Bill
• Gas watchdog in the offing
• Cetma raises brown goods projections
• FIs begin search for Enron buyers

CAPITAL MARKET

• Stock exchanges set up ethics panels