• Ranbaxy receives US FDA approval for diabetes drug
• KEC International bags $36-million order from Afghanistan
• Daewoo to go ahead with small car; may consider Gujarat plant
• Intel begins trials on internet over power lines
• Bharti, VSNL, Rel Info deny allegations of forming cartel
• Ashok Leyland Sept sales up 27 per cent
• Bharti's September sales figure pushes up stock price
• Blaupunkt to have 30 brand shops in India by 2006-end
  

GENERAL

• BHEL stake-sale put on hold: Left
• Inflation close to 4 per cent
• No import of sugar says government
• PMO reprimands oil ministry on ONGC
• US and Chinese officials to meet in Beijing

• ICICI Bank expects interest rates to rise by 50 basis points
• United India in bancassurance pact with Bank of Rajasthan
• HSBC to set up non-banking financial co

MARKETS

• Rupee down
• Sensex down
• Organic Coatings allots 10 lakh equity shares
• JM Financial to issue equity shares worth Rs175.56 crore
• US stocks fall
• Gold at all time high
• Draper to invest $200 million in private equity fund for India

INTERNATIONAL

• Reckitt Benckiser to buy OTC unit
• China's gap between haves and have nots at critical level