• Nokia starts trial production at Chennai plant
• GoAir to expand flight routes
• Infosys announces Rs.50-cr investment in Kerala centre
• Volvo mulls separate plant for buses
• Kaya skin clinic to expand operations: invests Rs.70 crore
• Honda to launch bike in executive segment this year
• Trai hauls up mobile operators for poor service
  

GENERAL

• AIDS drugs may get tax breaks
• Freight corridor to be highlight of the rail budget
• Automotive testing plant to be set up at Gurgaon
• Sibal: Educational institutions must be given autonomy
• ISRO to commercialise launch vehicle technology
• Airport upgrade: lobbying starts afresh
• OneIndia to be launched by Jan 26

• Home loan rates to remain stable for now
• Andhra Bank price band at Rs.82-90
• Birla Sun Life introduces `Simple Life'
• PSU insurers pay out Rs.614-cr for Mumbai flood claims
• IRDA cuts entry fee for surveyors
• Life insurance grows 46 per cent in April-Nov.
• AAI to offer bonds
• RBI readies plans to widen rural bank network

MARKETS

• Geojit Financial to open all-women's branch in Mumbai
• New schemes from MFs
• RBI bars Temasek from raising stake in ICICI Bank
• US hedge fund to invest Rs.200-cr in Indiabulls
• UK Funds to buy 23 per cent in Saurashtra Cement

INTERNATIONAL

• China's foreign exchange reserves for 2005 at a record US$818.9bn
• Anglo American appoints investment bankers for demerger process
• Just 30 per cent of UK firms in a position to pay salary pensions

PEOPLE

• Hon. doctorates for ISRO's Madhavan Nair, and Infy's Narayana Murthy
• Michael Sauer, former MCI official to head Reliance Comm.
• SAIL's Sanak Mishra to head Mittal Steel's Jharkhand unit