COMPANIES

• Unilever chief sets store by direct marketing
• IDL to pay Rs 15 lakh to blast victims' relatives
• Aventis launches osteoporosis programme
• Welspun-Gujarat to hike Dahej unit capacity
• LG Electronics sets up compressor plant
• HLL to unlock value from surplus land
• Coffee Day ties up with GSK to distribute new brand
• Dr Reddy's LABS ties up with Color Chips
• Escorts tractor unit pegs Rs 175 crore profit in 2 years
• Tata Indicom cuts ILD rates in Mumbai, Delhi
• Godrej eyes acquisitions abroad
• SAP announces partners
• Navision unveils new software
• Kerala IT varsity is Sun's regional e-learning centre
  

GENERAL

• CAT on Feb. 15
• Delhi, Mumbai airports — GoM
  may call new tender for consultant
• US economy to benefit from offshoring: McKinsey report
• ICSI looking at new avenues for members

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Banks shelve fresh exposure in Debt MFs
• Hudco cuts interest rates
  

MARKETS

• Sebi evaluating FII investments through 'certain routes'
• MosChip plans rights issue
• Brokers in tax muddle

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Citigroup MF unit faces probe by prosecutors
• Putnam to end rewards to brokers
• Security Trust Co accused of colluding with hedge funds

PEOPLE

• P.S. Rana is Hudco CMD