COMPANIES

• Hind Sanitaryware to double capacity of glass division
• Ranbaxy's new drug for erectile dysfunction
• GMR Energy to set up new plant
• Shree Synthetics board to meet
• GE Capital to invest in Ashok Leyland Finance
• ICRA grades BE Billimoria at CR2
• Bharat Forge rights issue
• Sterlite files for rights issue
• Cellnext will compose your ring tones
• Rs 200 cr for expansion of Escotel networks
• Goldstone bags state project in US
• Modular Info offers upgraded Lipi package
• Amadeus launches e-ticketing
  

GENERAL

• First match to be telecast on DD
• Inflation falls to 5.32 per cent
• Car sales up 73 per cent in February
• Industrial growth up 7.4 per cent in January
• PowerGrid bonds get LAAA
• TRAI says cable rates to remain at December 26 levels
• EOUs wish to be at par with SEZs

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Rupee range-bound
• Interest rates on small savings to remain unchanged
• SBI-Canara Bank joint venture in Russia
• SBT branches linked to ATMs nationwide
  

MARKETS

• Sensex ends higher
• Counters
• 271 per cent return for UTI Infrastructure Fund
• Simplex lists on the NSE
• Fidelity stake in Satyam goes up to 5 per cent
• BSE software glitch: Over-estimates in IPO bids
• ICICI Bank public issue in first quarter of '04
• Aftek Infosys promoters get SEBI rap

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Alan Greenspan warns against BPO ban

PEOPLE

• K.K. Suresh Kumar is Director, Hindustan Latex