COMPANIES

• Chinese steel company plans integrated plant in India
• Videocon to acquire Daewoo Elec
• India Cements net up 20 twenty times
• Ranbaxy gets marketing rights for Swiss gastro drug
• Leyland, Bosch to set up design centre in India
• Balmer Lawrie to expand its Chennai CFS
• TCIL Q2 net up 32 pc
• Starbucks to enter India with Biyani

• Quarterly tax collection up 44 pc
• Nasscom to conduct test for BPO entrants in Nov
• Government to extend SEZ benefits to Semiconductor fab units
  

• Rupee dips
• SBP starts depository services
• All eyes on RBI: rate hike expected
• SBH net rises 81 pc
• Kotak Life registers 122-pc growth in H1
• StanChart to offer 8 pc on FDs
• Wealth management services from Bank of Baroda
• WB may give $1bn loan to Andhra Pradesh
• UK realty fund to invest in Mumbai

• New initial public offerings

• IBM takes Amazon to court over patents
• Ford posts quarterly loss of $5.8bn: largest in 14 years
• Enron's Skilling sentenced for 24 years