COMPANIES

• SAIL to revive Alloy Steel Plant concentrate rejected
• IOC to sell petrol in Nepal
• RPG group may appeal against court order
• Ford Excursion receives good response
• AOL ropes in allies for instant messaging services
• Daewoo-GM tie-up likely, says Korean bank
• Fidelity, Title agreement on acquisition
• Chile to probe Coke-Cadbury deal

GENERAL

• Power, port sectors lag behind on Y2K
• Lower inflation not good for economy
• Forex reserves go up
• ICICI not to lend any more to steel sector
• Convenience cheques from Citibank
• Citigroup to merge two units

CAPITAL MARKET

• Badla rates down

PEOPLE

• Sanjiv Arora joins Adroit Computer
• Ethnic Indian likely to be Singapore's President