COMPANIES

• Hindustan Lever Q4 net up 1.6%
• Gail, OVL buy Myanmar Daewoo stake
• BG sign sales agreement with Gaz de France
• HCL Tech results below expectations
• Mallya to sell 26% stake in UB
• Skinner to take over as McDonald's new COO
• Telco Q3 loss shrinks by 50%
• Rasna unveils new strategies
• Crompton Greaves Q3 profit at Rs 2.190cr
• Organosys posts 28.49% rise in Q3 net
• Cummins Q3 net profit down by 38.02%
• CMC posts Rs 7-cr net profit in Q3
• Dolphin to source garments from India
• Sun Pharma Q3 net up 36.5%
• ICICI Bank profit jumps 73%
• Amazon reports first-ever net profit
• Kmart files for bankruptcy
• Nokia offers luxury cell phones
• Puma plans re-entry into India
• Ingersoll-Rand sets up road institute
• Dresdner group launches $200 m VC fun
• Cisco installs new IP-based network for LIC
• Dabur net rises 1.8% in Q3
• Centre sets deadline for Dabhol sale
• HLL likely to merge Russel Ind with itself
• HLL to venture into bio-technology
• LG sold one lakh Acs in 2001
• Aruna Sunrise, Tulip Star sign marketing pact
• Amareswara Agri-Tech signs marketing pact with M&M
• AIR offers towers to cell companies
• Kenstar to make coffee vending machines
• HMD rolls out auto disable syringes
• P&G net up 16%
• ABB to focus on home electricals
• NIIT ties up with Click2learn
• Entire Santro production likely to be shifted India
• Tatas to sell stake in TFL
• Tanishq launches Diva collection
• SBI sets up payment gateway

GENERAL

• PF board recommends 9.5% interest rate
• Customs duty may be lowered to 20%
• Infosys, US varsity institute awards
• PSU banks to be allowed recruitment
• Terrorists attack American Center in Kolkata
• India, Israel sign MoU to boost IT
• Auto Expo to go overseas
• Grape marketing centre in Europe proposed
• Ad industry grew by 23% in 2000-01

CAPITAL MARKET

• BoI bond issue oversubscribed

PEOPLE

• Dipak Chatterjee is new commerce secretary