Accountancy
Member moves DCA over ICWAI accounts
Agriculture
Is India really surplus in foodgrains?
Marked decline in edible oil prices
Flour mills seek more cut in wheat prices
Airlines
Global flight engineers AGM on Nov 25 in Mumbai
Automobiles
Punjab Tractors' first shipment to US soon
Hero Honda plans to invest Rs 100 cr for expansion -- To introduce two 100 cc mobikes next year
ICRA warns of possible shake-out in car industry
Banking and Finance
Bank bill keeps future divestment option open
Corpn Bank holds customer meet
`Sentiment improves in gilts market'
Exchange house -- Canara Bank pact with Oman group
Call rates may remain in single digits: I-Sec

Vijaya Bank VRS by Dec
SHCIL plans tie-up with co-op banks
Chemicals
Dumping duty on imported soda ash recommended
Coal
Strike hits coal mines in Bengal, Jharkhand
Commodities
Pepper prices continue to fall
Gold trapped in narrow range
Corporate
Widia to pay 10% interim
Sterlite to acquire Australian mines
Indian heads Adidas Singapore
Updates on `Nifty' thru Singapore SE
LIC appoints 2 Managing Directors
US patent for Plazma torch
RIL developing special grade polymer for Exide
Vardhman Overseas reference dismissed as non-maintainable
IFC keen on investing in Mahindra Industrial Park
Hyundai India to begin second phase of investments soon
Herdillia Chem to go in for contract manufacturing
Rayalaseema Power to merge with Rayalaseema Hi-Strength
ICI to sell polyurethane, paints businesses
Courts
HC ruling set aside in gift tax case
Economy
PSU disinvestment -- Conflicting signals and costly delays
`Short-term debt till June at $7.9 billion'
FDI inflow: RBI data at variance with Dept claims
External debt of LICs -- The vulnerability factors
The right to protest

Tackling fiscal constraints to growth
Providing social services -- Whose responsibility is it?
Centre implementing scheme on disaster management
Editorial
Another oil patch
Fast track
Select stocks lose steam
Foreign Trade
`Roadshows, fairs to boost ties with Asean vital'
`Safeguards against trade diversions via SAPTA'
Forex
Rupee ends stronger; gilts fairly stable
Impact
Gesco Corpn: A new twist
HDFC Bank: In solitary splendour
Information Technology
NIIT rejigs to reach Rs 10,000-cr turnover
Raising doubts in the US over IT skills import
Construction Portal expands base in AP
Tektronix bags SingTel order
Jain Internet ties up with Cisco
ZDNet India, Yahoo! in pact
Global InfoServ bags $15-m order
Conference on multimedia for culture
PCS wins Rs 15-cr bank order
PTC signs MoU with IIIT-B
Infotech bags major Dutch contract
Zap opens 4 EWT centres in Kerala
Explocity.com set to go global
`IBM leads in supercomputing'

Intel launches Pentium 4
Postal Department
Infrastructure
Pant unhappy with private response to infrastructure
Insurance
Citizen Credit launches medical insurance
Petroleum
Oil cos to bear brunt of roll-back
`Petronet project fate hangs on NTPC offtake'
Pharmaceuticals
Bulk drug industry shifting focus
Plantations
Time to focus on value-added spices
Politics
Birth of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttaranchal -- The dearth of common-sense
Gore and Bush: Tweedledum or Tweedledumber
Power
PM to inaugurate WEC executive assembly
States
Kerala bid to woo Gulf investors
President to unveil Kerala Labour Agenda
Awareness programmes for rural farmers
Steel
Customer first: The mantra behind Tata Steel's success
Stocks
Tips, turnover topper in B2 scrips on debut
Balaji Telefilms listing tomorrow
Stocks respond to carry forward rolling settlement move
Gesco price steady
Dalal Street
CFRS shares firm up
In-transit shares -- SEBI to regulate traffic
Taxation
Special allowances of Army personnel exempted from I-T
Technical Analysis
Marginal gains
Technology
Another ISRO deal with Intelsat on the cards
Textiles
Knitting a textile training agenda
Threshold for TUFS loan lowered to Rs 25 lakh
Transport
Paradip-Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar -- NHAI studying options to improve network