COMPANIES

• IDBI holds back loan for Reliance
• Subhash Chandra bids for ICO
• WorlTel plan cleared
• Monsanto’s Equal brands in India
• FIs to hike stake in Jindal Vijayanagar Steel
• Enron plans telecom foray in India
• US company to take over Orissa Drugs
• ETH Dishnet service in Mumbai
• Microsoft launches new web device
• Mannesmann rejects Vodafone offer
• Hutchison, Global Crossing in JV
• Iran oil contract for Shell
• Entrust's software to check hackers

GENERAL

• Government wants to settle telecom wrangle
• RBI seeks changes in NPA norms
• NPAs shoot up
• Comsat Max to offer VSATs to UTI Bank
• China, US sign deal on WTO

CAPITAL MARKET

• Profit-booking affects trading
• DSE brokers to set up terminals in Mumbai
• Sebi to host regulators' meet
• Gilt scheme from LIC Mutual Fund
• Shasun plans private placement
• Morepen to raise Rs 200 crore
• BSE seeks dividend details from Premier

PEOPLE

• Shankar Radhakrishnan, CIO of DSP Merrill Lynch