• TRAI: International bandwidth tariffs slashed by 35 per cent
• Maruti picks up lions share of JD Power Asia Pacific awards
• GAIL short listed for JV with Syrian company
• Mastek to invest Rs700-750 million towards infrastructure
• Calcutta HC rejects caveats of KK Birla, BK Birla, Y. Birla
• Erisson rolls out first consignment of GSM radio base stations
• Tata Coffee to enter JV with Beeyu Overseas
  

• Jharkhand state assembly adjourned till March 15
• Industrial growth up eight per cent in Jan. 2005
• Inflation up marginally at 4.95 per cent
• FM: Food and fertiliser subsidies to continue

• RBI projects lower inflation and higher growth for 2004-05
• Tata AIG targets $1 bn business by 2007
• IKF Finance ties up with Sundaram Finance
• SBI to raise Tier II capital to support credit growth
• ICICI Bank to hold 51 per cent stake in Prudential ICICI AMC

• IVRCL issue priced at Rs385-415
• Sunil Mittal divests stake in Bharti Tele
• Igarashi to allot shares to Aeneas

• William Ford steps down from Ford Motor's board
• China's trade surplus continues to rise

PEOPLE

• Forbes: Lakshmi Mittal is third richest in the world