• Bharti Tele adjudged Asia's best GSM operator
• IFC to fund Ramky to the tune of $20 mn
• Fuel prices: IOC loses Rs.2600 crore in current fiscal
• BSNL ties up with Oxigen for e-recharge facility
• Hutch offers Zero Rental plan
• MTNL to spend Rs.1,867 crore this fiscal
• HLL shareholders clear transfer of tea estates
• Ultra Slim notebook from Wipro
• Corporate Results: BRPL, Balarampur Chini

• ISRO to commercially launch Italian satellite in 2006
• Left seeks oil stabilisation fund
• FICCI: Business confidence index dips in Q4

• Rupee weakens; bond prices fall
• RBI: Floating Rate Bond rates
• SBI and HDFC dilute stake as CIBIL diversifies shareholding
• HDFC Standard Life new business premium up at Rs.486 crore
• SBI Life premium income grows 166 per cent
• Govt. issues freshly designed non-judicial stamp paper
• Metaljunction launches coal sales through e-auction

MARKETS

• Pitti to convene EGM for preferential offer
• Matrix Labs to opt for $200 mn global offering
• Blackstone Group allocates $1bn for investments in India
• Beeyu Overseas to raise Rs10 crore from public issue

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

PEOPLE

• B.B. Tandon assumes charge as Chief Election Commissioner
• Rajagopal to steer Diageo India operations