Highlights

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COMPANIES

• RSM Int’l scouts for partnerships in India
• Samtel to set up unit for Super flat tubes
• US co offers seismographic support to Idukky dam
• Volvo to use Bangalore unit as hub for premium bus exports
• Deccan Aviation set to connect southern sky with new flights
• Wipro may buy Lever's Glucovita
• Ranbaxy gets US nod for Augmentin syrup version
• Toyota to go slow on Corolla bookings
• Sankara Nethralaya, TCS ink pact
• HLL relaunches kids ice-cream portfolio — Ties up with Cartoon Network for promos
• Ice-cream biz: HLL to focus on six cities
• Essar Steel hopeful of riding out the slump
• IA hikes fares by 15 pc
  

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Barry Diller quits top job at Vivendi unit
• US tech sector pares 5.6 lakh jobs in two years
• Cessna to cut 1,200 jobs
• Enron says will keep pipeline assets
• LG Elec Feb handset sales double

GENERAL

• Reforms finally inch on as 24 SEBs sign to pay up Rs 37,400 crore dues
• Lift ban on second-hand machinery imports: AEPC
• Exporters to meet Pant on Monday
  

BANKING AND FINANCE

• IBA agrees to take up staff unions’ demands on March 29
• ADB to invest $7.5 billion in India over three years
• Bajaj Allianz on course to post profit in Ist year of ops
• Credit Policy on April 29
• Nabard should go for direct lending
• Banks allowed to set up more offshore units
• Corpn Bank's archives plan
• Federal Bank Tier-II issue fully subscribed
• ICICI move to take over SPIC assets futile

CAPITAL MARKET

• USFDA nod lifts Ranbaxy
• Steel stocks beat Sensex on first day of war
• Divi's Lab edges up
• Tata Engg driven by FIIs
• HFCL slumps 30 pc on talk of FCCB shares sale
• Satyam jumps on business confidence report
• 500 more cos asked to provide data electronically
• US-Iraq war fires up Sensex; techs recover
• Re recovers after 12 paise fall
• Dow gains for 7th session in a row