COMPANIES

• Shaw Wallace breweries readies Sri Lankan push
• Pakistan brewery hopes for beer export to India
• ParkinElmer hires Labindia to distribute its products
• Local shipping industry fears loss of cabotage protection after SCI selloff
• Tamil Nadu minerals to set up JV for granite products
• i-flex options open on acquisitions
• Xerox Modicorp: Foreign representatives to be probed
• Digital GlobalSoft net seen growing 20 per cent
• India Cements plans to sell Visaka, Raasi
• Tenali Ram goes to UK, Hanuman prefers US
• Sundaram-Clayton to demerge air brakes biz
• Private cellular cos gear up to take on BSNL
• India a money-spinner for struggling MNCs

GENERAL

• Urban development ministry rapped for financial jugglery
• Inflation further falls to 6.03 per cent

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Investment-cum-protection range from Om Kotak
• LIC western zone business rises
• RBI staff call off stir
• S. Korean co enters race for ATM share
• Rural development banks bag awards

CAPITAL MARKET

• Be alert in choosing distributors
• FIIs' stake up in HDFC Bank
• Wipro hits 52-week low
• US-64 redemption outgo seen lower at Rs 2,000 crore

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Steps taken to prevent financial crisis: Koizumi
• Euro beginning to flex its economic muscle power
• G7 meet bypasses currency talks

PEOPLE

• Former Deputy governor of RBI Janakiraman dead