Agriculture
Food meet bets on contract farming -- 10 per cent annual growth targeted
Airlines
Airbus, Boeing ready to meet IA's re-bid deadline
Automobiles
Overdrive `best car' is Alto
Maruti may hike prices by 3 pc
Banking and Finance

`Banking on prudential reforms' -- Mr V. Leeladhar, CMD, Union Bank of India
Too much emphasis on capital adequacy?
Evolution of the debt market -- A long, but rapid journey
Cigarettes
Keep cigarettes out of VAT, says TII
Panel moots high import duty on cigarettes
Commodities
Commodity futures to spin Web trading
Corporate

Cost-cutting exercise bearing fruit for Eicher group
MICO board okays buyback
New twist to takeover battle -- Malaysian MNC evinces interest in Shree Syn
Eicher motorcycle sales up in Nov
GESCO to seek nod for pref issue
Hertz in tie-up with Citibank, HSBC
LG Electronics fares well during Diwali
South Asian Petro entering market
FIs to help Pennar spring back to health
Fellow of WAPS
M&A scene will hot up further
IPCL hopes for crowded `shows'
Business school plans to woo foreign students
Arvind Mills unveils American strategic initiative
Nestle set to make ice-cream splash
Dr Morepen acquires `Burnol' for Rs 8.9 cr
CII summit to focus on industry morale
SWC moves CLB to shift office

Lodha is new FICCI chief
Gucci `no' to Indian leather
Ear to the ground
Sun Pharma witnesses FII backing
Economy
TNCs prefer mergers, acquisitions: Survey
OECD asks Japan to step up reforms
EU to reduce farm subsidies further
Business advisory panel to kick off at WEF meet
How China has surged ahead of India
Ambiguous economics
FDI: Putting it in perspective
Mauritius to work with SEBI, RBI to check fund misuse
Plea to ease curbs on PF investments
Striving for a world without slums
`Govt taking steps for speedy justice system'
Editorial
Eyeing the reserves
Food & Dairy Products
Nestle farm coolers to supply `clean' milk -- Six-year installation project to pay off soon
Foreign Trade
Emerging economic challenges to diplomacy

Maran for revival of NZ aid programme
Hotels
Hotel Ashok VRS to follow Gujarat model
No New Year cheer for hotel industry
Impact
Ranbaxy: Setback
MICO buyback: Deflated
Information Technology
Comprehensive strategy for IT in 10th Plan: PM
Infrastructure
Sops sought for Intl. airport in AP
Management
AIMA-ICFAI business meet
Miscellaneous
Politician's freedoms
On the hedge
Bearish outlook for Dr Reddy's?
Power
Enron sacks India staff
Focus on renewable energy sources, says Prabhu
IOC to review investments in 3 projects
`PowerGrid projects ahead of time'
Rubber
Centre likely to foot STC rubber procurement loss
States
Customs agents' body flays CCTL tariff
Kerala plans four Chinese model industrial development zones
Naxal land combats poverty
VAT: TN's apathy
Stocks
Profit-bookings arrests initial rally
CSE warms up before AGM
`Redemption pressure dips for US-64'
Record volumes in derivatives segment
Taxation
Corporate tax collections down 5.4 pc in Apr-Nov
Tea
Centre clears tea futures
Technical Analysis
Marginal gain
Telecommunications
Reliance, BSNL forge interconnect pact -- 30:40:30 formula for revenue sharing
Terrorism
Bin Laden - An agent or Western double-agent?
Textiles
Seminar on textile industry planned
58 textile mills closed during Apr 2000-Aug '01