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Oct. 1: Time Technoplast acquires Ned Energy for Rs 50 cr

Ruia group buys 30 per cent controlling stake in Malaysia’s Industronics

Oct. 3: Ranbaxy hikes stake in Zenotech Lab to 45 per cent

The UB Group announces a series of changes in key management positions across its several group companies.

Oct. 4: Reliance Power mandates banks, FIs to raise $6 billion (Rs 24,000 crore) in syndicated loans on a secured basis.

Tata Steel and Corus start joint sourcing and purchase of materials, including ore, coal and refractories.

Oct. 5: Hyundai stops production of luxury sedan Elantra

Avesthagen arm acquires Swiss co Siegfried Biologics

Moran Tea becomes McLeod’s subsidiary

Oct. 8: Autoline seeks FIPB nod for taking 51% stake in Detroit Engineereed Products Inc of the US

Oct. 9: ONGC and the L.N. Mittal group decide to suspend the operations of the overseas hydrocarbon trading and supply chain management joint venture.

Oct. 10: Lupin Ltd acquires close to 80 per cent stake in Japanese generic company Kyowa Pharmaceutical Industry Co Ltd, for an undisclosed amount.

Oct. 11: Engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro Ltd enters into a share sale agreement with Malaysia-based Tamco Corporate Holdings Bhd for acquisition of Tamco’s de-merged switchgear business, Tamco Switchgear Malaysia Sdn Bhd, for an undisclosed amount.

Tata-Fiat venture to make Grande Punto, Linea in India

The Government issues a formal approval letter to Reliance Industries Ltd on the pricing formula for the gas to be produced by the company from its Eastern offshore fields.

Maruti Suzuki India along with its parent company, Suzuki Motor Corporation, forms a joint venture agreement with the €4.5-billion company Magneti Marelli, a subsidiary of the Fiat group to produce electronic control units for diesel engines.

Oct. 12: ACC hikes stake in Shiva Cement to 14.7%

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court sets aside the order of the trial court which appointed four administrators over the estate of M.P. Birla.

Oct. 13: Four executives of POSCO-India taken hostage by villagers opposing the company’s 12-million-tonne-per-annum capacity steel project near Tandakul village in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district on Saturday.

Oct. 15: The Bombay High Court rules that the family settlement within the Ambani family and the subsequent restructuring of Reliance Industries sanctioned by the court are binding on the respective group companies.

Oct. 16: Bajaj Auto offers VRS to Waluj workers

Bharati Shipyard Ltd signs up with Apeejay Shipping Ltd for a 50:50 joint venture for setting up a ship building yard along the eastern coast of the country.

Oct. 17: POSCO withdraws staff from Jagatsinghpur office

Hind Unilever completes 75 years in India

Oct. 22: Warburg Pincus picking up 11.2% in Havells India for $110 m

ONGC Mittal acquires 30% in exploratory block in Turkmenistan

Permanent employees of Skoda Auto India’s Aurangabad facility strike work demanding a pay revision.

Oct. 23: Suzlon Energy Ltd says it will split its shares and list its Belgium-based group company Hansen Transmissions International NV on the London Stock Exchange.

Oct. 24: Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd’s Chairman Mr Shishir Bajaj alleges that there were attempts to oust him from Bajaj Sevashram.

Oct. 25: The Company Law Board asks Mr Rahul Bajaj and Mr Shishir Bajaj to prepare a report on the areas of dispute which are holding up the mutually acceptable agreement for splitting the business.

The Government approves steps for disinvestment in Tyre Corporation of India, under which it will allow the public-sector enterprise to form a joint venture with a private company.

Oct. 26: The Andhra Pradesh-based Krishnapatnam UMPP receives request for qualifications from just three bidders — Sterlite, L&T and Reliance Power — out of the nine pre-qualified bidders.

Essar Steel Holdings Ltd, part of Essar Global Ltd, says it has completed the acquisition of Minnesota Steel LLC, a US-based steel company with estimated reserves of over 1.4 billion tonnes of iron ore.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board announce the setting up of a joint venture company to put up a 1,600-MW thermal power plant at Udangudi, near Tuticorin, southern Tamil Nadu.

Oct. 29: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd announces investment of $1.8 billion in a research and development facility in Haryana and major structural changes in the company.

Ashok Leyland, Nissan sign pact to produce LCVs, power trains

Oct. 31: The board of Reliance Energy approves a proposal to transfer its infrastructure projects to a separate subsidiary.

Tata Steel signs a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam Steel Corporation for a proposed cold rolling mill complex in Vietnam.

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