• Assocham: Raw material price rise hurts steel companies bottomlines
• Government plans to divest 10 per cent stake in profit making PSUs.
• British Airways to increase focus on India
• IOC wants interest paid on oil pool account arrears
• Skoda to double capacity
• Avalon Tech opens fourth manufacturing facility at MEPZ
• TCS to employ additional 1,000 people in Kolkata
  

GENERAL

• India offers SAARC nations facility of daily flights to metros
• Charitable societies, non-profit companies could go under service tax net
• Australia to shore up presence in Indian retail food market
• Forrester: Huge potential seen in legal outsourcing to India
• India throws open farm research sector to U.S. companies
• Exports grow 28 per cent in October
• India, US to double trade by 2008
• BIS to set strict standards for hallmarking of jewellery

• Indian Bank optimising manpower strength to tap retail space
• BoB gets Sebi approval for public offer
• Hewitt Associates wants role in new pension system

MARKETS

• Compulink IPO gets nod from Sebi

INTERNATIONAL

• APEC ministers gather under cloud of faltering WTO talks
• Japan's current account surplus widens on the back of rising exports
• Sony puts CD copy protection software under abeyance
• Google to launch Google Analytics
• Microsoft seeks US backing in EU antitrust battle

PEOPLE

• Arvind Sharma is new IDRBT director
• RBI gets new executive directors
• Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Award goes to Kumar Mangalam Birla
• Karan Bhatia is US deputy trade representative to India