COMPANIES

• Pfizer withdraws liquid Gelusil
• Biocon's `Insugen' to hit market soon
• Grasim's Harihar plants resume operations
• Sigma Aldrich to place production lab in Hyderabad
• Geometric to partner with VSCE
• Petronet LNG to double capacity at Dahej
• EFI banking on its India centre
• SDG Software to expand operations
• Datacraft India sees 25-pc rise in revenues
• VXL Instruments offers new network device
• Marico goes with McCann Erickson
• LG: Captain of India campaign for cricket series
  

GENERAL

• Hike in free sale sugar quota for March
• Aluminium production during April 2003-January 2004
• SC disposes plea against reduction

BANKING AND FINANCE

• JD Power: Car finance getting in younger buyers
• IDBI ECB raises $300 million
• RTGS launch likely by March-end
• Rupee steady
• BANCS to share 2000 ATMs
• ABN Amro: No penalties on prepayments
• SBI Life aiming for higher sales
• IFCI merger: Govt assurance to staff on salaries
  

MARKETS

• Biocon IPO open from March 11-18
• Elgitread goes for stock split
• ICRA's best MF's for 2003
• ONGC: IOC, GAIL equity locked in for six months
• SEBI on 'high alert'
• Sensex: Still going south
• Derivative contract norms to be altered
• IPO

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Drugs: Next outsourcing frontier for India
• Wipro opts for Embarcadero tool
• WTO chief to US: Outsourcing threat overblown

PEOPLE

• S.B. Chavan passes away