COMPANIES

• Marico serves notice to Recon
• SRF buys DuPont Fibers
• Skoda to buy 30 per cent in IMP
• Lever-Johnson may buy ‘Cycle’
• HAL in technical agreement with Airbus
• Will HCL Tech float?
• Birla Corp performing well this year
• Indocean Chase takes up 26 per cent in Domino’s
• SAIL’s Salem plant finds more bidders
• Siemens, Matsushita to float IPO
• Novartis to launch three drugs
• Lock Heed Martin to focus on core areas

GENERAL

• FDI at $440 million for August 1999
• Crisil, Naredco in MoU
• DoT sues Trai
• New India, Allahabad Bank to go online

CAPITAL MARKET

• Markets not so steady
• NSE allows smaller stock exchanges
• Citibank to take 2.38 per cent stake in NSDL

PEOPLE

• Harshad, 3 other accused get RI for 5 years