• Union cabinet likely to award contracts to BHEL
• OIL-IOC consortium enters into pact with Libyan co.
• Madhucon bags Ingersoll- Rand 2005 award
• Samtel Color increases capacity
• Ruia's mull tie up with Sumitomo Corporation for tyre manufacture
• Air India Express to carry ads on tailfins
• Air India revamps image
  

GENERAL

• Delhi Government arranges for additional power in winter
• Power scarcity to hurt industrialised states
• Lalu says railways needs more funds
• Uttaranchal focuses on gas projects

• UTI Bank hosts Utsav in Hyderabad
• State insurers incur loss in insuring Reliance Infocomm handsets
• MetLife enters into bancassurance tie up with Jammu rural bank
• Maruti insures more than two million vehicles
• Private insurers market share increases to 26 per cent

MARKETS

• Suranas hike stake in Bhagyanagar Metals
• Offshore fund hikes stake in Prithvi Information
• MF becoming big players on stock markets

INTERNATIONAL

• Cold winter in the US extends oil rally toward US$60
• Capital investment by Japanese companies on the rise as yen continues to decline
• Airbus mulls plane assembly in China
• Convergence moves: Virgin brand may soon rule the waves
• Kazakhmys, world's largest copper miner, to enter FTSE 100