Market Roundup

COMPANIES

• UPL to buy DuPont's herbicide biz
• Lafarge announces 3-mt plant in Himachal
• Dr Reddy's sets up unit in Vizag SEZ
• Hyundai begins recruiting, training for new plant
• ONGC ties up with Prize Petro, HPCL, M3nergy
• Coromandel Fert enters into JV
• Volvo signs pact with Jaico for JV
• Pennar Ind does a turnaround
• Hind Copper to hike mining capacity
• GTC launches low tobacco cigarette
• Tata Tele supplies CDMA mobile phones to SCR
• India Land to invest Rs375-cr in Chennai IT park
• Sonata Soft to acquire majority stake German IT company
• Maruti rubbishes Hyundai claims at MRTPC
• Tatas wants Singur land by year-end

• India's 2006-07 GDP growth to be at 8.5 pc: Credit Suisse
• Tax breaks sought by food processing industry
• Pakistan allows increased imports from India
  

• Bond market can finance infrastructure development; Sebi chief
• Rupee rises due to dollar inflow
• Yes Bank plans micro finance subsidiary
• UTI Bank plans to set up investment banking arm in London
• IFC may invest more in Indian banks

• HSE resumes operations
• Sebi upholds order against Millennium Cybertech
• CRISIL assigns highest rating to ING Vysya's MF

• Dow at near record high

• Ravan Boddu to resign from iSoft
• Tamal Saha appointed Whirlpool's head of sales