COMPANIES

• Telco plans JV for engine, foundry and tools units
• JD Power study to be standard for Telco
• Indian Oil, ONGC cement ties
• Canadian online firm takes stake in Tata co
• Dow Chemical opts out of IPCL bid
• L&T, Indian Oil in JV
• Indal plans Rs 350-crore expansion
• Citibank, FMO take stake in DCM Asic
• Ikon launched
• Suzuki may allow GM to have stake in Maruti
• Hero Honda plans Rs 300 crore investment
• ORG slaps legal notice on Videocon
• ICICI, eVentures pick up stake in contest site
• Berkshire Hathaway buys power company
• Micron chips for Compaq
• Microsoft, NTT form JV
• Grupo Mexico acquires Asarco
• Cisco moots standard in wireless transmission
• Intel launches 15 processors
• Viagra for women in 3 years

GENERAL

• Private insurance firms face stiff norms
• IT Act next in row
• Syndicate Bank issue oversubscribed
• Corporation Bank profit up
• FIPB puts ‘retail’ plans on hold
• Railways offer 16 per cent
• FDI will be $3.5 billion by end-1999
• SBH likely to become autonomous
• SBI cuts board size
• Truckers, Govt hold talks
• StanChart apologises to Mount Banking

CAPITAL MARKET

• Markets down marginally
• NSE’s index trading on schedule
• Compaq need not make open offer: Sebi
• Kotak’s tax schemes
• SBI Mutual upbeat on IT sector
• Sebi to get strict on Indian Bank MF
• The case of the forged letter
• Reliance Capital to become SPV
• Japan’s new market for new companies

PEOPLE

• Lalit Mansingh is new foreign secretary
• Raghavan to head competition law panel
• R Vijayan is SBI GM