COMPANIES

• Ranbaxy launches Visclair in the UK
• Ashok Leyland: Market Transformation Mission
• Tata Steel: 2004 is year of safety
• Jindal Poly board: Revises share conversion norms
• BMW team meets Naidu
• Tata Motors sales up 45 pc in Feb
• LG: Bangalore facility to develop software
• Idea Cellular: To invest Rs 300 cr in Andhra
• Spice Tele: Crosses 3-lakh subscribers in Karnataka
• Comsat Max: Solutions for AC Nielsen
• Wipro and Adobe Systems in alliance
• Ocean Connect: Pune centre to double capacity
• LogicaCMG: Will double head count in India
• Pepsi and Hero Honda: Banding together
  

GENERAL

• IBSA Trilateralism: Rounding the Cape of New Hope
• Shourie: Strategic sale route to be revived after verdict
• TRAI: Service quality below norms
• India cellular subscriber base at 31.40 m
• 50,000 trucks keep off roads for the second day
• Inflation: Up at 5.94 per cent

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Rupee firm
• L&T Holdings' NCD programme upgraded
• FDI cap in private banks hiked to 74 pc
• Tamilnad Mercantile Bank: High Court seeks status
• Foreign banks may set up 100 per cent subsidiaries
  

MARKETS

• Sensex Gains
• Counters
• ONGC offer: Fully subscribed in 11 minutes
• GAIL offer oversubscribed 6.3 times
• Dredging Corpn: Cut-off price is Rs 400
• IL&FS and UTI schemes to integrate by April
• SEBI suspends Credit Suisse for a month

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Outsourcing: US Senate votes against
• IMF chief: Horst Koehler will step down

PEOPLE

• Grasim Suitings: S. Krishnamoorthy is new COO
• Vishwabharathy Foundation: Star of India awards