COMPANIES

• Mysore Cements may talk to Lafarge
• Voltas to exit robotics, will sell stake in Fanuc India
• Mangalore Breweries set to enter Shaw Wallace stable
• Electrolux works hard on turnaround strategy
• Metal Box land to be put up for sale
• Zee to sell its stake in publishing subsidiary to group companies
• Recent survey rates Ranbaxy as best pharmaceutical company
• Nissan secures agreement for 24-hour production
• Daimler set to gain management control of Mitsubishi Motors

GENERAL

• ModiLuft may be relaunched as Royal Airlines
• Finally, new products from LIC
• VSNL to get big monopoly compensation
• Telecom staff to go on indefinite strike from September 6
• Oil prices touch 10-year high

CAPITAL MARKET

• Sebi mandates that MF investors barred from opting out of lock in
• Sensex shoots up despite lack of broad support
• Shares of LSE hit new high

PEOPLE

• Sun F&C Mutual Fund board  gets two new faces