Weekly Roundup

COMPANIES

• Ashok Leyland launches medium duty cargo carrier
• Hutch questioned on push-to-talk service
• Pharma PSUs foray to make anti-AIDS drugs
• HMSI casual workers call off strike
• Sun Pharma to demerge I&D division into separate company
• Microsoft launches Xbox 360 in India
• Zee ties up with Motorola for mobile radio technology gaming
• Reliance finds more gas in KG basin
• Coal India to invest Rs12,000-cr to increase production
• Godrej Agrovet, Malaysian co enter into JV
• Hyundai to invest Rs4,191-cr in India by 2008
• Air Deccan to raise $100mn from overseas markets
• AI selects three companies for fuel hedging

• US Republican bill could hit India, Brazil exports
• Petroleum prices may decline soon: Deora
• CST phaseout not till April 2007
  

• Ficci survey finds PSU banks need consolidation
• Vijaya Bank to raise Rs700-cr tier-II capital
• Maharashtra makes VAT claim of Rs389 crore

• BSE, NSE extend trade timings for a fortnight
• NTPC pays Rs2,308 crore dividend for 2005-06
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange eyes India

• Kuwait to be the largest investor in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China IPO
• Pioneer files patent infringement complaint against Samsung