COMPANIES

• Totalfina opts out of race for DPC
• Jamcracker gets $28.4mn funding
• Triton to launch media company
• EIH promoters to hike stake to 51%
• M&M to enter defence production
• Parsec Tech to raise $2 million
• M&M eying Detroit-based design firm
• BG Group buys Enron stake in Panna-Mukta
• BoB to sell stakes to foreign partners
• Colgate declares 25% interim dividend
• S Kumars may tap market to fund power project
• Ind Rayon defers buyback
• Samsung launches new programme with NSC
• IOC wants Reliance out of IPCL race
• Exide plans global growth
• Godrej acquires 26% in e-varsity
• UTI market share dips below 50 pc in Jan
• Titagarh, Ruia Coatex bid for Jessop
• JNPT in a jam over US-64 investments
• Taj plans luxury yacht service
• TVS signs Sachin as brand ambassador
• Ma Foi sets up unit in Dubai
• Futureschools allies with Cambridge varsity
• Bhel plans IT-based products
• Geojit arm ties up with MetLife
• ETA General plans to double capital base
• Kalyani Carpenter launches service centre
• i-flex to set up park in Bangalore
• NIIT, SunGard tie up
• Sify gets ISO 9001 certificate
• Sony bags 6-yr cricket rights
• Promoters may exit Global Trust
• Santro to get a face-lift
• GE Medical to move component mfg to India

GENERAL

• New Pharma policy announced
• India underutilising bandwidth
• Govt receives 150 bids for 9 ITDC hotels
• Easy exit rules set for ISPs
• ISRO plans health satellite

CAPITAL MARKET

• BSE to suspend trading in 78 scrips
• Sebi charges KP entities with takeover violation

PEOPLE

• K Roy Paul is Civil Aviation Secretary
• Mohan Gurunath is Dabhol Power MD
• G.N. Bajpai to head Sebi