• Nalco to pay 40 per cent dividend on strong metal prices
• McDowell to raise $250 million in international markets
• PSL likely to get HPCL project
• Apollo Tyres pulls out of joint venture with Michelin
• Tata Motors hit by strike
• Agro Tech Foods' to help heartsick kids
• New Tanishq campaign to up growth
• Philips Semiconductors to make low cost handsets a reality
• Sterling, illycaffe tie up for coffee machines
  

GENERAL

• Fiscal deficit flares
• GDP grows 8.1 pc in Q1; manufacturing up 11.3 per cent
• Maharashtra's ban on plastic bags may affect exports
• ONGC may have to share Rs 2,830-crore subsidy burden in Q2
• FM says reform would continue
• Central aid to states up 9.8 per cent
• Trade deficit increases 3-times to $15.8 bn
• Status quo declared in Escorts, Fortis deal
• Left red in face: Only Kolkata airport largely affected
• 50 per cent of outsourced jobs from Silicon Valley come to India
• Forex reserves fall $4.3bn

• Housing loans may be excluded from priority sector lending
• Banks to work extra hours today
• Current account balance turns negative again
• Forex reserves dips $4.3 b on currency devaluation

MARKETS

• StanChart to launch another equity fund
• DSP Merrill Lynch chosen advisor for Air India's IPO
• Shree Renuka Sugars to issue IPO
• SEBI debars more companies from the market
• SBI MF increases stake in Nagarjuna Construction