• RIL transfers control of four demerged companies to Anil Ambani
• Google opens sales, marketing offices in Delhi, Mumbai
• L&T gets Rs.144-cr order in West Asia
• Companies likely to adopt new accounting norms from April
• IOC expected to finalise merchant bankers for sale of ONGC, GAIL stake
• Shell to set up technology centre in Bangalore
• Siemens to acquire 50 pc stake in Flender
• Sona Koyo plans to invest Rs.400-cr to increase capacity
• Renuka Sugars' standalone refining facility to come up at Haldia
• Volvo to expand luxury bus market share
• Ashok Leyland records 20 per cent jump in sales in Jan
• ONGC identifies oil fields for re-development
• Dr. Reddy's to hike borrowing, investment limits
• SkodaAuto to make India hub for south-east Asia
  

GENERAL

• CSO pegs growth at 8.1 pc
• Finance ministry not in favour of health cess
• Nasscom gets Booz Allen to study global engg. services market

• Rupee firms up
• BoM increases coupon rate on Tier-II bonds
• IOB ups NRE deposit rates
• IOB board fixes meet on Bharat Overseas buyout
• Allied Digital gets US$1mn contract from ICICI Bank

MARKETS

• Motilal Oswal to sell 20 per cent stake to strategic investor
• Quantum AMC to launch its first scheme in India
• JP Morgan plans MF business in India
• Indian Oil to retire debt partially through ONGC, Sail stake sale

INTERNATIONAL

• WTO overrules EU's ban on genetically modified crops
• Luxembourg to introduce law to repel Mittal's bid on Arcelor
• BP announces record profits of US$19.3bn
• Coca-Cola profits down 28 per cent

PEOPLE

• T.C. Nair takes charge as whole time member at SEBI
• K. Vijayan to head JP Morgan's MF business in India
• Pawan Kumar to head Scandent Solutions IT strategic business unit
• Virtusa inducts marketing head
• Deba Ghoshal, product marketing head at LG Electronics, quits