COMPANIES

• Reliance and US-based Eastman enter into marketing pact
• Tata group to buy out Dresdner in asset management JV
• Birla Global Finance plans private placement
• Jindal group to enter confectionaries
• GP Goenka group shaking off its old culture
• Hindujas increase stake to 63 per cent in Fascel
• Birla group company, Zuari Industries to spin off seeds division
• Glaxo plans to increase share in asthma market

GENERAL

• IFC pulls out of venture capital project with SIDBI
• Cabinet to consider new aviation policy soon
• Allahabad Bank to rope in HDFC for marketing home loans

CAPITAL MARKET

• Fears of blood-bath grips BSE, is it right to follow Nasdaq?