• Maruti registers 5 per cent higher sales in December
• Bajaj Auto 2-wheeler sales up one per cent in December
• Dhampur Sugar declares dividend; announces investment plans
• TVS Motors two-wheeler sales up 11 per cent in December
• BHEL receives Rs.800 crore order from NALCO
• Israeli firm ties up with Alkem Labs to develop drugs
• Orchid Chemicals receives USFDA approval for Cefprozil oral suspension
• Hero Honda posts six per cent higher December sales
• Prajay Engineers approves increasing share capital
• Skoda sales rise 56 per cent in Dec 2005
• RPG transmission receives orders of Rs.73 crore
• Visa Steel files for IPO
• Shiva Texyarn to give 10 per cent dividend
• Hindustan Zinc revises zinc prices
• Sales of cars fall in 2005
• Nectar Lifesciences in Rs.100 crore expansion
• US company acquires ICI India's rubber chemicals business
• Aptech to raise FII holding to 74 per cent
• ECL registers operational profit in the first nine months of 2005
  

GENERAL

• Lifetime validity schemes come under TRAI scrutiny
• Chennai project on schedule: Baalu
• SC issues notice on Reliance Infocomm issue
• VAT computing software launched
• Civil Aviation likely to get Rs.3 crore in '06-'07
• Assocham predicts 36 per cent growth for retail sector by''08

• Rupee range bound — securities up
• No priority sector status for wind power loans
• Hindujas to get into insurance
• IDBI, Sidbi enter into agreement for SME funding
• BoB launches no-frills saving account
• UB hikes interest rate on FCNR, NRE deposits
• Exim Bank offers LoC to Mali

MARKETS

• Rel. Capital and Rel. Capital Ventures merger ratio decided at 5:100
• Goa Carbon plans Rs.37 crore rights issue
• Era Constructions makes preferential allotment of warrants
• Dhampur Sugar declares 10 per cent dividend
• Nitco Tiles to come out with IPO
• HDFC MF launches long term close-ended fund
• Principal PNB AMC introduces infrastructure & services fund
• India-specific ETF lists on LSE
• Nitin Spinners to raise Rs.49 crore through IPO

INTERNATIONAL

• Vehicle sales up for December in South Korea
• Singapore GDP maintains scorching pace - expands 9.7 pc in Q4
• UK MPs committee to urge curbs against giant retailers

PEOPLE

• Neville Roach to head TCS-FNS
• Bibek Debroy is Secretary General, PHDCCI
• M. Ayyappan is new CMD at Hind Latex
• Shantilal Daga in IFAC's developing nations committee