COMPANIES

• Oriental Insurance goes online
• Hindustan Zinc profits down
• Satyam Q 3 profits up
• Airtel, Essar to slash pre-paid card rates
• TPC, BSES to sign confidentiality pact for DPC sale
• HDFC cover for home loans
• Fiat cuts Uno production
• Balaji Q3 net at Rs 8.51 crore
• Satyam to open China office
• Eveready reports Rs 5.73 cr net loss in Q3
• Dr Reddys to prune staff
• BG to bid again for Enron's stake
• PNB Privilege Card launched
• Sanmar group enters life insurance
• AMD launches new processor
• Batata-BPL to raise $100 m through pvt placement
• Pallonji, Sanwarmal bury hatchet
• IOC puts Paradip refinery on back burner
• Cadila Pharma readies cardiovascular drug
• Indal Q3 net down to Rs 30.12 crore
• Cisco to set up networking institutes
• Tata group consolidates media buying
• Metros to have Amul restaurants
• Pepsi gets Golden Peacock award
• ConnectCapital to close India fund
• VSNL to offer OFC route to TV channels 
• HDFC teams up with Chubb
• Essar to acquire 30% of Hutch Max
• Sony launches Playstation
• Indal to take 35% in Utkal Alumina
• Jindal Strips explores African shores
• Hong Kong firm to take charge of Gujarat power co
• ICI profits up, sales dip
• Hindustan Zinc Q3 net down
• Tata Tea Q3 net up
• eFunds to assist in RBI project
• Modicare offers in sachets
• Electrolux sets up exclusive outlet
• Sonali Bendre to promote Limca
• Centaur sale to Batra okayed
• Modis pare Godfrey Phillips holding
• Tata trucks may get hi-tech navigation tools

GENERAL

• Laloo, Mishra granted bail
• Communication Commission to be set up
• Company managers pay revised
• Rs 2,700 cr needed for convergence
• Crude oil production falls 1.1%
• TV ad revenues dip in H2
• Norms for differential voting rights relaxed

CAPITAL MARKET

• Crisil downgrades M&M issue
• IPOs likely to fetch Rs 6,000 cr
• DSE to merge with BSE

PEOPLE

• Siddharth Shriram steps down as Siel chairman
• Reckitt chief quits
• Top Cisco executive joins Enterasys
• ICICI Lombard chief resigns