COMPANIES

• Telco seals deal with Rover
• LG moves to ramp up CDMA handsets sales
• MRF net profit zooms 147 per cent to Rs 78 crore
• Essar Ship may shift Suezmax tanker to Marshall Islands
• Cafe Coffee plans Rs 100-crore expansion
• Pepsi fails to weather the thunder, Thums Up's No. 1
• RIL offers to buy 20 per cent more stake in BSES
• Tribunal quashes cell firms' plea
• Local market seen ahead of global peers
• Infy mandates Goldman, SSB, Merrill for ADS offering
• Grasim taps Sebi to freeze L&T demerger
• Polychem brands flock to UB stable
• Veritas Software picks up Jareva Tech for $62m
• LN Mittal to take over S Africa steel co Iscor
• Solvay acquires parent's brand for Rs 14 crore
• Morgan Stanley to sell stake in Kumaran Sys
• Bollywood limps, but Sony rakes in Rs 100 cr
• GlaxoSmithKline declares 37 pc second interim
• Samtel to exit colour monitors business
• Surya Roshni bags export order
• Sanghi Spinners bags eco award
• Renfro buys out Intersocks' 49 pc in Karnik Hurwits - EOU name changed to Renfro India
• McDowell, UB Holding voting rights in SWC frozen
• Acer bets on TabletPC to make new dents

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• BA, Qantas face suit as passenger suffers blood clot
• Blum's the boss at Burger King
• Airlines push for new labour laws
• US Inc. to pay $1 billion in fines
• French court convicts billionaire Soros
• Bayer sets aside $257 mn for Medicaid rebate probe
• Skandia sells US business at heavy loss

GENERAL

• Pumpgate: Supreme Court quashes PM’s cancellation
• Parliamentary Panel for allowing oil PSUs to bid for HPCL, BPCL
• Kelkar Report to top board of trade agenda, meet on Dec 27
• CII hails move to set up Central Investment Agency
• Fieo flays move to cut drawback rates
• SC modifies ban on new autos in Delhi

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Code on lenders liability draws mixed reaction
• ABN Amro moves HR operations to online
• ‘KPFC’s Rs 200-crore bonds get good feedback’
• NRIs, PIOs allowed to settle credit card dues from NRO a/c
• AP Co-op bank bags `profitability' award
• Excellent Insurance awaits direct broker licence
• Nabard outlay for Kerala put at Rs 11,603 cr
• Ernakulam home loan fair gets under way
• Tata Finance PTC issue gets `AAA'
• States told to go easy on bond guarantees
• KPFC bond issue closed
• Punjab & Sind Bank likely to go for IPO

CAPITAL MARKET

• Restricted movement
• Dr Reddy's sheds some gains
• Tata Steel up on price trend talk
• Sun Pharma EGM okays stock split
• BSE resumes trading in Seamec
• Satyam Comp 280 calls open-interest jumps
• Activity in index constituents muted
• Rupee continues rally, closes at new ’02 high

PEOPLE

• Polaris chief freed, but can't come home