The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, June 18, 2006

ANNOUNCEMENTS
BPCL's Bina Refinery financial closure soon
BPCL is set to announce financial closure of Bina Refinery, to be commissioned by Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd, sometime next week. The company will formalise loan agreements, for raising a total of Rs 6,500 crore, with 20 banks and financial ... More

GM discontinues Chevrolet Forrester
Vehicle did not rate high in value for money features More

Madhucon bags Rs 1,800-cr NHAI orders
Madhucon Projects Ltd has announced that it has been awarded four national highway projects of 330 km on build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis worth around Rs 1,800 crore. Of this, three projects are in Tamil Nadu and one in Rajasthan with a ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Relationship Management — Inability to manage work-life balance top employee issue
"Relationships at work are different and traditional education and skill sets do not help people cope with the problems." More

FIXED DEPOSITS
JK Paper: FD attractive
JK Paper: An investment can be considered in the fixed-deposit programmes across tenures. As the paper business is subject to a high degree of cyclically, the longer tenures are risky. But the rates on offer appear to be attractive. The ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Cadila eyes Spain, Italy for mergers, acquisitions
To emerge as a $ 1 billion company by 2010 More

NEW PROJECTS
Leighton bets big on new projects
Racing against time to get Flextronics building ready More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
UK firm Henry Butcher conducts auction of equipment
Expects construction material sale to pick up in India More

GVK to rope in partners for ultra mega projects
Plans big thrust in power, infrastructure sectors More

MRPL signs pact with Mauritius co
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) has signed an agreement for the supply of approximately 1.03-million-tonne petroleum products to State Trading Corporation (STC) of Mauritius for 2006-07 commencing from August. ... More

OUTLOOK
`Brownfield expansions can take steel output to 100 mt'
Govt must consider disincentives for iron ore exports: Jindal More

Hyundai to launch two new models every year
Conducts feasibility study for 1-tonne commercial vehicle More

PEOPLE
StanChart appoints new head
Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Mr Pallav Sinha as head, wealth management. Mr Sinha will be responsible for driving the deposits, investments, insurance and NRI businesses of the consumer bank, said a press release from ... More

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Looking back
Jun. 11-Jun. 17
Reliance opposes mandatory blending

India Cements plans plants in Himachal, Rajasthan, M.P.

Natural gas to RNRL: Details sought from RIL

On restructuring pay with a skew towards ESOPs

No change in ONGC's approach to become integrated energy co

IOC offers Kuwait stake in two projects

SCI to adopt new vessel acquisition policy