COMPANIES

• Komal, Shettigar to stay on Shaw Wallace board 
• Jet Air launches new cargo warehouse at Bangalore 
• Gati Corp proposes articles amendment for buyback 
• Praj Industries plans technical boost for ethanol division 
• Essars oil outlets to be ready by year-end 
• Govt to impose curbs on FDI from neighbours
• Govt to support MSEB views on DPC board row 
• VSNL issue: govt fields Advani
• Drug MRP to include local taxes
• Sical to close Ahmedabad refractory unit to cut losses
• Sterlite finally gets okay to run Korba plant
• Pfizer to market Protinex over the counter
• Hero Honda Motors joins discount wars
• Ispat shuts down coal, power subsidiaries
• Alcatel unveils new phones, ties up with Agrani
• Parle Agro plans foray into hospitality
• Oracle to hire 100 software pros a month
• Travel by Jet Airways to become a flight of fancy
• L&T bags two Kuwait contracts
• BSE to probe pref issues of 5 cos
• Madura Coats offer gets FIPB approval
• Samsung India wins award
• Glaxo VRS for Ankleshwar unit
• HPL board meet to review IDBI-okayed restructuring plan
• Hinduja TMT plans IPO next year
• Promoters, Templeton to hike stake in Aurobindo
• Promoters to hike stake in Padamalaya Tele
• DCA puts one more official member on ICWAI council
• APSTC inks pact with two Malaysian cos
• 1:10 bonus from Beeyu Overseas
• SAIL hopes to break even
• I-T raids on Parekh Platinum

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Salomon fined $5 m, Grubman charged
• IMF slams rich countries on trade
• China overtakes US as No. 1 FDI hotspot
• Record junk bond defaults
• Slim in US, Big Mac bulks up in China
• Treasury yields at 44-yr low
• German financial supervisor monitoring insurers
• Microsoft, H-P in $50-mn alliance to push .NET
• Xerox Corp of US under scrutiny again
• Fed expected to keep the US rates steady

GENERAL

• Terrorists holed up inside temple killed
• Power ministry seeks cut in customs on naphtha
• Bonus tussle: dockers, managements meet on Oct 8 
• DRDO developing all-weather air defence gun system 
• Foodgrain output touches 1990-91 low at 90.80 million 
• FDI: India nosedives to 15th slot 
• Pant all for pump-priming to boost demand 
• Govt flays WTO over report on auto dispute case
• EC mulls scrapping blue-box farm sops 

BANKING AND FINANCE

• CII favours next generation reforms in insurance sector 
• CCIL mulls guaranteed securities settlement 
• Dividend payment by 22 public sector banks rises 24.18 per cent in 2001-02 
• Housing finance firms to raise Rs 600 crore via MBS 
• MoF approves ADBs $100 million nomestic debt issue 
• ICICI Pru raises capital base by Rs 95 crore
• RBI looks at widening repo market base
• South Indian Bank: Confidence springs from `solid' figures
• Kelkar meets IBA panel members
• Corpn Bank adds one more ATM
• Eighth bipartite wage settlement - IBA, union talks on Oct 18
• Kapol Co-op's net profit, deposits up

CAPITAL MARKET

• Barjeel to include American equities among services - Tie-up with broking unit soon
• HC decree of Rs 5.82 cr on ex-CSE director
• Bears prevail
• Cochin SE seeks to sell prime land
• Lack of positive triggers drives down M&M
• Citigroup buys into e-Serve?
• Aptech Training volatile on first day
• Markets edgy over sharp fall in global indices
• Special margin on Orient Tradelink
• SEBI cancels First Global registration
• Late buying in HLL cushions sharp fall in tech stocks
• Re stable; gilts range-bound
• Quiet debut for Union Bank
• Dow ends at four-year low

PEOPLE

• IDBI-Principal gets new COO
• Escotel chief Manoj Kohli puts in papers
• Changes at Kellogg's