COMPANIES

• GE targeting eight-fold growth in India: Immelt
• Cairn gets management nod for field development plans
• L&T & Toyo win IOCL's naphtha cracker plant
• Vizag Steel to generate 12 MW of renewable energy
• Samsung targets sale of one lakh flat panel TVs in '06
• BBC World to become a pay channel from June 15
• Hughes to roll out 1,000 broadband kiosks this year
• NIIT & Sun Microsystems join hands
• Blue Dart introduces first Boeing 757s in India
• Corporate results: DLF Universal, Rajesh Exports Ltd , Ipca Laboratories Ltd, Tata Chemicals, Hero Honda, Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company Ltd

GENERAL

• Shinde raps States on power generation and losses
• India-US formulate action plan for stepping up bilateral trade
• Agreement on 20 pc bonus for port and dock workers
• Oil PSU officers defer strike as Delhi HC issues notice to ONGC and Centre

• FIIs sellers in F&O to the tune of Rs.412-cr
• BoB, SBI and Pantaloon Retail fetch premiums in FII trades
• $2.5bn foreign funds outflow in last eight trading sessions

• Wall Street slides; Indian ADRs go along with it
• Morning trades: Asian markets reel in Wall Street tailwind
• Goldman Sachs chief, Henry Paulson Jr., to replace John Snow at the US Treasury
• EU court bars giving passenger data to U.S.

• Cabinet secretary, BK Chaturvedi's tenure extended
• Sahara MF chief, Rajiv Shastri, resigns