COMPANIES

• IT sector gets largest share of venture capital
• Maruti hikes prices of 800 cc, Zen
• Essar seeks extension of domestic loan periods
• Aurobindo Pharma raises equity
• Continental nominee on Apollo board
• Apollo plans new product-mix
• Government to sell stake in IOC, GAIL, Concor to retail investors
• Birla TransAsia prunes staff
• Asda stores to source beer from Mysore Breweries
• Kinetic shareholders okay ESOP
• RPG Life Sciences, Norton Healthcare in pact
• India Software-Midas-Kapiti JV
• Gulf Oil to set up blending unit
• KPMG to study Agrani project
• Telco truck sales up
• FCB Worldwide and Bozell merge
• Proton to have subsidiary in India
• Mastech, GE Capital in JV
• Fidelity to use Palm VII of 3Com
• Hewlett-Packard ties up with StarMedia
• Sega introduces Dreamcast
• Leo Burnett is Delta Airlines' ad agency
• ITW to acquire Premark

GENERAL

• Trai to revise cell rates, DoT may lose revenue
• IIP rises 5.4 per cent
• IFCI subsidiary for jointly bidding for advising on infrastructure
• Enjoy the DA rise
• RBI denies NBFC licence
• SBI starts automating dividend warrant processing
• HSBC, Centurion Bank go on-line
• Drug industry will remain under price control
• IFCI picks 5% of Bank of Shanghai

CAPITAL MARKET

• Lacklustre stock trading
• BSE move on Z group companies in vain?
• Service tax rules clarified
• UTI's Masterplus 91 faces erosion
• Sebi's 'mission of missing men'
• UTI to float infotech ventrure capital fund
• Sony India launches CP issue

PEOPLE

• Seshasayee is president of COAI
• Firodias' plan for corporate governance
• IFCI changes portfolios of EDs
• Keith Weston regional executive of Bata