Accountancy
Take a bigger helping
Shun TV
Calling the bluff
Agriculture
Medicinal plants cultivation project -- In STEP with Aditya Biotech
Wheat sale for export of processed products -- Flour mills seek FCI stocks cheap
Record global oilseeds production likely
Airlines
Airlines baiting foreign-bound pupils
Air Sahara to draw up new business plan -- Fresh look at fleet route expansion
Automobiles
Hyundai launches two variants of Sonata
GM used car exchange scheme launch by Dec
Passenger car sales zoom 30%
Commercial vehicles sales accelerate
TVS-Suzuki drops behind
Banking and Finance
Banks promise support to UTI
Commodities
Thrust to widen coconut-based products
End-use certification for industrial-grade palm oil -- Questions remain over Customs bond
Corporate
Computation of book profit -- No adjustments needed for statutory norms: ICAI
Funding of expansion plans -- Eduquity in talks with venture capitalists
Elgi Equipments hopeful of 10-15 pc revenue growth
Elgi escapes US-64 freeze -- Denies insider information
`More cos must prospect for bio-resources'
Corporate debt recast package finalised
Colgate Palmolive to pay special dividend
Zee goes interactive to hog frame
Saregama Broadcast to set up studios, equipment
Usha to offload 49 pc in Koshika to NRI
Industry to present views on managerial remuneration today
`Yaadein' distribution
Courts
Writ against master plan for Chennai dismissed
Economy
New accounting standards to prevent frauds
The disinvestment dilemmas
Steep fall in pvt investment
Mineral production index up
US-64 imbroglio -- Are banks and FIs the milch cows?
Decade of transition, structural change
Reversing the slump
Editorial
Coal confusion
Fast track
Positive changes ahead
Financial Performance
L&T first quarter net zooms to Rs 65 crore
E Merck net up 10.12 pc
Tata Steel Q1 net falls 80 pc on slowdown
Foreign Trade
28 pc rise in Indo-British trade volume
DGFT tells States to boost exports
Health
ILO project on HIV\AIDS at workplace
Hotels
Indian Hotels in talks with SIA arm for joint venture
Impact
Mukta Arts: Already a priced show
Silverline: No silver lining here
Tisco: Steel in tumult
Information Technology
Maars Software merger with Mascon Global off
Speed Post via Speednet
Need for restructuring
Management
`Conation' leaders
Miscellaneous
Redefining power and femininity
David come to town
Snapshots of the future?
Mutual Funds
UTI holding in HFCL at 12.42 pc
UTI measures
PSU
Govt to earmark 6.31 pc stake for CMC staff -- Prospective partner to get only 51 pc
Pharmaceuticals
Shantha Biotech in talks with Chiron for AIDS vaccine
Shantha Bio defers IPO, listing plans -- In talks with 3 cos for contract R&D
Clinical trial norms on cards
Policy
Reforms panel for abolishing 82 posts
Cabinet okays Mineral Bill's introduction in Parliament
Politics
A summit unconquered?
Why involve Pakistan?
Power
SHV Energy to freeze investments till dismantling of APM
`Power sector needs $200-b investment'
Dabhol files SLP in apex court
Are SEBs unviable or are they weighed down by social costs?
Meet on power management
Rubber
Rubber woes
States
Kerala Govt announces tax concessions
Plea against extending Kudremukh mining lease
Plea for international convention centre in Hyderabad
SSI decry TNEB directive
Local body poll results an eye-opener for TDP
Steel
Tata Steel ranked best in world by WSD
Tata Steel cuts output at cold rolling plant
Steel Ministry closes down Hyderabad office
Stocks
Wipro on song; RIL, HLL, ITC drift
Lyons Range
Tea
Weekly Kochi tea auction postponed
Technical Analysis
Bear domination
Telecommunications
Spectrum pricing -- DoT challenges jurisdiction of appellate tribunal
Fourth cell licence for VSNL -- Cell operators may move to get stay vacated
Textiles
Cotton yarn export dips 14 pc
Travel & Places
Rustic getaways to soothe the soul
