• Tata Motors to launch the Indigo in Russia
• Idea Cellular to invest US$298mn towards expansion
• Telecom firms oppose OneIndia tariff plan
• NASSCOM: Software exports on track to touch US$50bn
• IA fleet acquisition plan: PM to empanel GoM
• Nokia to base global network operation centre in India
• Amara Raja eyes 25 per cent market share this fiscal
• L&T all set to acquire Datar Switchgear
• PSU tenders: Motorola to set up manufacturing base in order to meet conditions

GENERAL

• McKinsey interview: PM says, will work for FDI in retail
• First outcome budget - Govt. to monitor all major programmes
• India short lists financial advisors for Iran-India gas pipeline
• Handloom sector targets US$50bn in exports by 2010

• Rupee closes firmer - bonds range-bound
• HDFC's US$500mn bond issue over subscribed - largest ever from India
• Public issue from Central Bank in current fiscal
• DSP Merrill Lynch's Super SIP scheme comes with life insurance
• CCEA clears capital infusion for Punjab & Sind Bank
• RBI: Govt. stock sale oversubscribed

MARKETS

• Pantaloon rights issue to raise Rs.224 crore
• Mid-Day Multimedia to allot preferential shares to T Rowe Price
• Tata Trustee Co. purchases shares of Murudeshwar Ceramics
• Bannari Amman spinning public issue to fund expansion

• Crude touches US$68 - IMF warns of impact on Asian economic growth
• EU textile firms close shop in the hundreds