COMPANIES

• IDBI to play development financing role even after conversion into bank
• Pre-paid services from Reliance Info before Diwali
• Hindustan Lever sets up BPO subsidiary Indigo
• TVS to enter Indonesia, Vietnam by 2004
• BPL Mobile to invest Rs 120 cr in Kerala
• DCM Shriram board clears sale of PAC unit
• Hutch targets million customers in Gujarat
• Delay in redressal: BSNL, MTNL staff to be pulled up
• Idea launches SMS contest on Telugu films

GENERAL

• BPO industry must overcome challenges:study
• Attrition returns to haunt software companies
  

BANKING AND FINANCE

• CBI plans cell to deal with bank, securities fraud
• Poverty aid needs to double: World Bank

MARKETS

• FIIs active in cash-derivatives arbitrage
• NSE shifts 135 scrips to trade-to-trade segment
• Sensex may set its sight at a target of around 4790'
• Harshad Mehta's shares net Rs 775 crores

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• New York Times hacker willing to surrender
• IBM respects employees' privacy most: report
• SEC gets cracking on MF, hedge fund probe

PEOPLE

• Mamata gets Cabinet berth