COMPANIES

• Essar Steel to offer 3 options to FRN holders
• Pearl Engineering in takeover talks
• Asian Paints to acquire Lankan company
• eVentures in India
• Singapore co to dispose Chennai waste
• MTNL plans subsidiary company
• Gujarat Sidhee, Saurashtra Cement merge
• Star ends tie-up with SitiCable
• Zee floats educational company
• Silverline to acquire US company
• Daewoo trebles car sales
• Kalpataru returns land to Knoll
• Toyota to invest $400 m for each new model
• Kshema Tech plans US acquisition
• ICI selling acrylics unit, brand
• Broadcom starts new media company
• Free web privacy software
• Amazon site access from wireless devices

GENERAL

• Verma committee submits report
• Sebi set to win battle with RBI
• MTNL stops new registrations
• New closing low for Rupee
• RBI’s new NBFC accounting format
• RBI to auction Rs.5,000 crore
• SC for tougher emission norms
• Govt. will hike petro prices

CAPITAL MARKET

• Markets hesitant due to impending poll outcome
• Market-making only for specific scrips: panel
• Delisting announced
• UTI gilt fund payout
• Sebi asks NSDL to probe failure
• OIL listing plan rejected
• Calcutta bourse for commodities trading
• London bourse plans demutualisation

PEOPLE

• Vaghul exits HDFC board
• V.G. Raghavan is Essar Steel CFO
• Alok Shanker to head Blackstone Market Facts
• Tayal is Bank of Rajasthan part-time chairman
• Ex-Pfizer chief donates $35 M to Duke varsity