COMPANIES

• SingTel, AT&T may acquire equity in NumTV
• Tatas in talks with Toronto Dominion for AMC stake sale
• Yamaha not to take over Escorts joint venture
• Thomas Cook to acquire operations of parent firm
• Sundaram Finance hives off IT services
• Tatas offers government swap deal for ITDC
• Tata Engineering partners DaimlerChyrsler to bid for S African order
• Birlas and Oswals vie for National Fertilisers
• Pechiney signs $260m deal in Venezuela
• Cisco Systems faces sobering drop in stock price

GENERAL

• VSNL gets national ISP licence

PEOPLE

• Amitabh Kumar gets just a 3-month extension
• IDBI insurance venture to be headed by former LIC MD