COMPANIES

• Birlas buy 2.86 per cent ICICI stake in Kesoram Industries
• HLL to revamp brand portfolio management
• Videocon to foray into insurance
• Hindustan Zinc completes smelter expansion
• Crompton Greaves on a cost cutting drive
• Godfrey Philips not in the race for VST
• United Airlines flights to India from April
• Wockhardt terminates marketing ties with Sidmak
• Orchid Pharma to invest Rs 46 cr for biotech foray

GENERAL

• New brand identity for its IDBI’s retail foray
• LIC to launch new policy with guaranteed returns
• Oil PSUs register Rs 8592.28-crore in profits for Apr-Dec 2000
• HUDCO seeks 100 per cent tax exemption on housing investment

CAPITAL MARKET

• SEBI allows FIIs to buy private debt instruments