COMPANIES

• Sterlite wins HZL for Rs 445 crore
• IA to acquire 43 aircraft from Airbus Industrie
• Aaj Tak not for sale
• Coke to launch tea, coffee
• Net helps LG India gain
• Ericsson, Bharti ink Net applications pact
• Microsoft India to double staff
• FirstRing raises $3.9 mn
• NIIT buys US co
• TotalFina to shift focus to LPG, chemicals, lubes
• Telco to launch 49-tonner
• Shareholders okay MosChip pref offer
• Vantel to merge two subsidiaries
• BPL Mobile reduces tariffs for mots-roamfree
• Tata Tele ready to launch broadband services
• Cisco offers voice solutions
• Radico to foray into beer market
• Coca-Cola Web site for youth
• Orchid launches 3 new drugs
• Gujarat Positra to go for NY listing
• Maruti to revamp production
• Net4India to launch pre-paid IP cards

GENERAL

• GoM for scrapping vintage allowance to urea plants
• SBI to cut PLR
• BJP voted out in Delhi civic polls
• Bids invited for 27 oil and gas blocks
• Swraj Paul to address CII, Ficci
• CII delegation to visit China

PEOPLE

• KPMG India ED quits
• Mallya, Laloo make it to RS
• New directors on Agro Tech board
• Top-level changes in Murugappa group
• Sanjiv Gupta is Coca-Cola India dy president