COMPANIES

• Royal Airways to fly again
• MRPL board to consider ONGC offer today
• Sultans of India Inc
• Blue Bunny ice-cream to quit Indian market
• Asahi India splits shares
• Power stations with BHEL-built thermal sets bag awards
• Leadership awards
• Profit in last 2 years notwithstanding... Ambuja Eastern to take time to get off BIFR net
• `Integrated sugar complex will shield Balrampur Chini from erratic prices'
• 229 companies in `vanished' list
• Cemex to acquire Mangalam's Kota unit
• RIL board meeting may signal Mukesh's coronation
• IBM buys PwC consultancy for $3.5-bn
• Cellphone firms face hard times as WLL rolls out
• Foster's scouting for breweries in south
• Ceat trims flab, hikes prices
• Shivalik Group plans foray into South
• Hyundai targets 3% market swing
• Excel signs pact with Paramount to market videos
• Columbia Tristar to release films sourced by Star
• Painting a rosy picture: ICI makes some value additions
• Coca-Cola claims 61 per cent of carbonated market

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Malaysia Airlines unveils restructuring plans
• Former Cisco executive pleads guilty to fraud
• Bush signs Bill to check corporate fraud
• Merrill says Enron dealings were appropriate
• Pegasus reports narrower Q2 net loss
• WorldCom, Global Crossing, Qwest chiefs to testify before US House
• KLM says it might sue wildcat strikers
• ImClone chief faces 10-year sentence for insider trading
• Qwest execs made millions in insider trading: NYT

GENERAL

• 1 dead, 12 injured in HAL gas leak
• 100 pc Govt-owned AMC proposed
• Bottoms fall off for shipping cos
• Western India plunges into darkness

BANKING AND FINANCE

• IDBI Bank buys BNP's merchant acquisition business
• There's reward in risk
• Kotak Mahindra to turn bank, recruit 200
• Insurers putting away Janata cover
• Parliament okays insurance Bill
• The more unhealthy, the merrier
• Ratings on HMT bonds withdrawn
• HDFC Bank to go mobile with Hutchison
• Catholic Syrian Bank to add 15 branches
• Private banks `other income' slides in Q1
• IDBI Bank Q1 net down 39 per cent
• Karnataka Bank net up 25% in first quarter
• Syndicate Bank hikes short-term deposit rates
• Corpn Bank takes savings-linked LIC cover for staff
• SIDBI to raise Rs 1,000 cr through capital gains bonds
• Central Bank cuts deposit rates
• Rs 500-cr bailout package for UTI
• MIPs bleed Rs 1,937 Cr
• SBI net up 32% at Rs 763.2 cr in Q1
• Rs 500-cr bail-out for UTI in first supplementary

CAPITAL MARKET

• Sensex likely to recover on Nasdaq gains
• US stocks mixed on profit-taking
• Steel majors top NPA list of UTI
• Bears regain control
• FI support sought for Lyons Range
• Pressure on revenue margins trips VSNL
• Novartis sees activity on rumours of P&G talks
• Widia India open offer at Rs 75?
• Infosys sneaks through when others fall
• Rupee gains; gilts decline