• Hindujas to acquire Fiat's stake in Ashok Leyland
• Jet Airways awaits approval to fly overseas
• TCG asserts right to majority claim over Haldia Petro
• Merck to invest $15 million in marketing
• Aurobindo Pharma gets US FDA nod
  
• Ban on nights for women only in two companies
• Toyota's new plant to manufacture small cars
• Gecis renamed Genpact
• Kanishk Steel to merge two group companiess with itself
• Maruti plans to roll out new version of Baleno
• M&M plans to put up plants in Malaysia, Russia
  

GENERAL

• Maharashtra does away with pension scheme for new employees
• UDF loses in Kerala civic polls
• India's vote against Iran to have no impact pipeline project: Aiyar
• PM assures India Inc of consensus regarding FDI in retail
• State to seize errant builders' property under land ceiling act
• LPG, kerosene subsidies to end
• India to offer textile sops to SAARC
• New pension plan likely to be 'a great success': PFRDA

• Rupee remains under pressure; bond prices fall
• Dena Bank ties up with Pru ICICI to distribute MF
• World exposures to India rise
• CESC concludes global depository shares offer
• Minimum capital base not to go below Rs100 crore: IRDA
• BoR plans to expand in South India
• Allhabad Bank to increase loan exposure to farm sector

MARKETS

• Market's 'fundamentally' strong: FM
• Cranes to issue 1:1 bonus shares

• US consumer confidence falls
• China facing severe glut in steel market
• Oil dips post Katrina higher supplies

• SBH gets new GM
• Bharat Patel is reelected chairman of ISA
• Manu Sawhney selected executive VP, ESPN
• Amrish Sethi is creative director of Turner International
• Reddy's founding MD dead
• Bachkaniwala is new chairman of TMMAI