• Essar Oil shuts down pumps
• Ashok Leyland Q2 net jumps 74.21 per cent
• Cadila Q2 net up 19.07 per cent at Rs.51.8 crore
• IOC plans forward integration in petrochemicals
• BMW to locate plant near Chennai
• Bannari Amman knits expansion plans post-quota

GENERAL

• Govt. to import onion through Nafed
• Left to discuss foreign equity in retail with Govt.
• Indian textile exporters gain at China's expense
• India second most preferred nation in textiles
• Fortune slams India on not getting basics right
• Telecom Dept's criticised for transferring officers

• Srei Infrastructure Q2 PAT up 50 per cent
• Birla Sun Life hikes capital by Rs.30 crore
• MetLife declares maiden dividend of 3 per cent to policyholders
• Post offices to disburse credit in villages
• Aviva Life and Basix to target one million rural customers by 2010

MARKETS

• Gujarat State Petronet plans IPO

INTERNATIONAL

• America to raise number of H-1B visas
• Kiev set for historic auction of its largest steel mill
• BlackBerry's US sales may be held up due to patent case
• Skies to open up in US, EU
• Rolls Royce gets aircraft engines orders from IndiGo
• Isuzu to purchase GM's Australian truck unit

PEOPLE

• Sony chief Howard Stringer addresses FICCI gathering