• Kanishk Steel to relocate acquired Italian plant in TN
• Tata Steel-BlueScope JV looks at Rs.1,000 crore turnover
• Publicis acquires majority stake in marketing services agency Solutions
• Tata Steel eyes South Africa's Highveld Steel
• Carborundum ties up with SA firm
• Bennett Coleman acquires 8.59 per cent stake in Kinetic Motor
• Board of Reconstruction makes recommendations to turn around 30 PSUs
• Juniper opens new technical centre
• Trai directs Bharti to refund Rs.32.73 crore to subscribers
• L&T postpones IT venture launch in China
• Swift, City, Innova top TNS customer satisfaction study
• XLRI-Accenture academy for HR education
• ONGC to import Sakhalin crude in second quarter of 2006
  

GENERAL

• India, China top Kearney's Global Services Location Index
• AP evolves integrated urban development strategy
• Tax revenues of VAT-implementing States up 14.3 per cent in H1
• Share of food as percentage of consumer expenditure continues to fall: NSSO
• Hewitt study: Indian employees to get fatter pay packets next year
• Italy for strategic tie-ups to attract Indian tourists
• Railways to attain self sufficiency in wheels demand

• Rupee gains — bonds rise
• LIC to launch a combo policy
• IRDA in favour of hiking FDI level to 49 per cent
• Ramadoss: Health insurance policy for rural India on the anvil
• RBI: new guidelines for SME NPA's
• SBI Caps in tie up with Doha Bank to offer consultancy services
• SEBI approves ICICI Bank's follow-on public offer

MARKETS

• Patni to offer 6.87mn ADSs
• Inox mulls entry into capital market through IPO
• Compulink to launch maiden public issue on Nov. 25
• Greenply to merge Worthy Plywoods with itself
• S&P rating for Reliance Ind. upgraded to BBB
• Kernex Microsystems Rs.99 crore IPO to open Nov. 28
• Canbank MF declares 7 per cent dividend on Cancigo

INTERNATIONAL

• Mandelson: No further offers from EU for farm tariff cuts
• Arcelor makes hostile bid for Canadian steel maker Dofasco
• Placer Dome board rejects Barrick's hostile bid
• Venezuela to provide cheap heating oil for US poor
• Verizon Wireless files suit against phone spammers

PEOPLE

• M.S. Srinivasan appointed as Govt. nominee on ONGC board
• Kamlesh Vikamsey appointed to board of IFAC