• Lodha challenges appointment of executors
• IISCO to be merged with SAIL
• Skoda launches turbo petrol engine car
• Biocon ties up with Novartis for contract research
• Cauvery Electrodes opens new unit
• Kanoria Chem to invest Rs.180 crore on expansion
• BT Broadcast Services and ASC sign up for DTH operations
• Dr Reddy's intends to exit Pathnet
• Ocimum ties up with Science Partners for UK and Europe
• Blue Dart ties up with Hayleys in Sri Lanka
• Airtel post-paid tariffs reduced
• Patni to expand operations to Chennai

• Tax revenues rein in fiscal deficit
• Foreign Trade Policy to double India's share of global trade
• IT spending by corporates low: Nasscom
  

• G-Secs recover - rupee unchanged
• Govt. confers mini-ratna status on Hudco
• New India Assurance profits jump 130 per cent
• State Bank of Hyderabad hikes housing loan rates
  

• Markets: Mid-caps make sense
• SEBI okays open offer exemption to L&T employees foundation

• Oil prices drop sharply
• AMD demonstrates x86 dual-core processor
• Mobile devices based on Near Field Communication

PEOPLE