COMPANIES

• UB pins hopes on 330-ml pints to boost sales
• Travancore Rayons revival - HC grants one-month time to submit report
• Mirc Elec meet on May 29 to consider bonus
• DHL Danzas ties up with Lemuir group
• MRF mulls Rs 200-cr testing track
• Majors eyeing 26 per cent Godavari Fert stake
• Dr Reddy's board meet on May 30
• Telco April sales surge 55 per cent despite truck stir
• Ispat to start energy project after PFC nod
• Guinness UDV uncorks flavoured vodka with Smirnoff Citrus twist
• India Cem debt restructuring gets clearance from CDR cell
• Samsung launches 'BuildurPC'
• Graphite India net down 1 per cent
• Leading mills join hands to promote cotton fabrics via cotton gold alliance
  
• Grasim may explore synergies with L&T's cement division
• Bharti Health to invest Rs 9 crore to hike capacity
• Cell-to-cell STD rates @ Rs 1.99 per minute
• STAR may halve programming budget

GENERAL

• Only 9 states ready with their VAT bills
• LS okays Fiscal Responsibility Bill

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Diebold buys out HMA in JV
• IDBI '02-03 net down 5 per cent
• BankMuscat to invest up to Rs 75 crore in Centurion Bank
• Max New York Life to Pay maiden cash bonus
• HDFC '02-03 profit rises 19 per cent
• Can Fin Homes to pay 25 per cent
• RBI direction on IFR norm
• Lazard working on funding options for GTB
• Birla MF ties up with KVB
• Marginal rise in SBI priority sector loans
• Orange ties up with banks for prepaid card refill options

CAPITAL MARKET

• Reliance Capital MF launches banking fund
• Kotak MF plans `floater'
• SEBI seeks CMs' help to curb unofficial markets
• Weakness in heavyweights weigh on Sensex
• SEBI moots setting up of Ombudsman system
• Balaji Tele stock plunges on stagnant TRPs
• Pantaloon's Big Bazaar success
• IDBI Mutual institutional plans
• Re inches up; gilts in narrow range

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Boeing unveils 717-based business jet
• Cisco posts higher profit but sales slip
• Microsoft, Best Buy accused of online scam
• Ted Turner sells stake in AOL Time

PEOPLE

• BSE Chairman Dhanuka resigns