COMPANIES

• Hyundai crosses the one-lakh milestone, to introduce LPG run Santro
• Hallmark may hike stakes in Vintage cards, restructuring plan on the anvil
• Mitsubishi incurs losses in Australian operations, to cut jobs
• Rivals - Intel and AMD - to hold investor meet in New York
• Rathikant Basu's Broadcast World in talks with RPG group
• HPCL plans private placement of Rs 300 crore debentures
• RPG pitches for hypermarket league
• McDowell board clears Udaipur Distilleries acquisition

GENERAL

• New credit policy, same old wine in new bottle - however FIs can turn to banks and banks can enter insurance
• Standard Chartered leapfrogs into big league with Grindlays acquisition
• New policy to allow ICICI and IDBI to transform to banks
• Arthur Andersen report states that infrastructure gap in telecom unbridged
• Postal unions to go on strike from May 2

CAPITAL MARKET

• Despite record volumes in Reliance, sensex is down by 113 points
• New announcements for review of loans against shares

PEOPLE

• CII gets new president in Arun Bharat Ram