COMPANIES

• ICAI statement provides guidance on CARO
• Tata Motors launches largest FCCN issue ever from India
• Reliance Energy to raise securities in global markets
• ISO mulling on norms for call centres
• Summer Wars: Pepsi readies Dukes Lemonade
• Greaves to go ahead with gear unit sale
• Wockhardt sets up marketing arm in US
• US chamber to fight for outsourcing
• Tata Tele to invest Rs 700 crore in Maharashtra
• Tata Tele sets up Wi-Fi access at Delhi airports

GENERAL

• Poll India: 2004
• Another strike for Cairn in Rajasthan
• Tax collections cross estimates
• World Bank: S. Asia GDP growth for 2004 at 7.2 per cent
• From vacuum to air brake rail coaches

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Rupee volatile
• RBI puts rate cap on NRI deposits
• FICCI concern at exchange rate fluctuations
• IDFC to pay 10 per cent dividend
• i-flex and FRS in global pact
• HDFC Bank margins up on higher retail lending
• Higher FCNR(B) deposit rates from UCO Bank
  

MARKETS

• Markets hold breath on first day of polls
• SEBI provides 'shelf prospectus' facility for Banks and FIs
• CalPERS makes its entry
• Reliance Power Sector Fund mops up Rs 415 crore

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• E-Waste: PC recycling is on the agenda now
• Agfa announces web based :IntellSyst remote service