COMPANIES

• Modi Spinning to sell off group holdings
• DCM announces group company mergers
• Tractabel to get pipeline contract
• RPG music company to float e-comm arm
• Shaw Wallace wins polls on resolutions
• Hinduja group to sell Fascel stake to Hutchinson
• IBM launches new facility at Bangalore 
• RPG to sell off agrochem division
• Ford may export the Ikon
• Barings to increase stake in Jyothy Labs
• Yokogawa Blue Star to get into IT
• ICICI Bank to set up Net kiosks
• Alstom to buy out ABB in JV
• Pearson to buy over Dorling Kindersley

GENERAL

• Far reaching exim policy announced
• Chinese experience to be replicated

CAPITAL MARKET

• Markets close the year end on a sombre note

PEOPLE

• HLL gets new directors and revamps management committee
• Eicher group gets new group chairman in Sandilya