Weekly Roundup

COMPANIES

• Drug prices fall as new MRP comes into force
• Reliance reduces fuel prices
• Yahoo to expand operations in India
• Marico may acquire more brands in Egypt
• Satyam to enter joint R&D projects with auto companies
• Natco Pharma to set up R&D entity
• Bajaj Auto Sept sales up 38 pc
• BSNL slashes landline, mobile tariffs in AP

• Prices rise faster than income: Assocham
• Oil prices start falling again
• Maharashtra to use only wastelands for SEZs
  

• ICICI Bank to employ 50,000 people in next five years
• DSP Mutual Fund to launch capital protected fund
• PNB likely to achieve business of Rs2 lakh crore in Q2
• Prudential's captive arm to hire more

• Brokers to have lesser role in ten yrs: IBM
• Indiabulls sells 4.3 pc stake to foreign funds
• Mahindra Gesco files for QIP

• Congress passes new bill to curb online gaming
• Now screaming mobiles are here
• More autos to sell in China than in US

• Anil Ambani third richest man in India, ADAG in trillion m-cap club
• ECIL gets new CMD