COMPANIES

• Indian Oil exits JV with Mobil
• Cairn Energy to invest $170 mn in India
• Daewoo India reports Rs 213 crore loss in H1
• A-I plans to recruit 2 directors
• Wharfedale to enter Indian market
• M&M launches new Bolero
• SET to enter Pakistan
• Sandvik makes open offer in SAL
• HLL shareholders okay FII limit
• New Holland to introduce new tractors
• Shiva Cement to go in for stock split
• Reuters to offer online market data
• Shivrams buys 14% NRI stake in Crocodile

GENERAL

• Prithvi successfully test fired
• Govt decides to drop Sankhya Vahini project
• Industrial growth dips to 1.9% in Oct
• Govt may allow 100% FDI in housing
• India, Iraq sign electricity accord
• Bangladesh eyes Trans-Asia railway

CAPITAL MARKET

• BSE reopens derivatives membership

PEOPLE

• Vikram Amin is Essar Steel ED
• BT appoints Ben Verwaayen as CEO