Market roundup

COMPANIES

• Vendanta Resources' to set up world's single largest smelter at Bharat Aluminium
• RIL's Maha Mumbai SEZ project gets an year's extension
• Ceat shifting tyre plant out of Mumbai, say reports
• UTI Asset Management and Shinsei Bank to set up asset management firm in Singapore
• Lucas TVS acquires Sical's auto component plant
• HAL ranks 34 among top 100 global defence firms: Defense News
  
• Dunlop India suspends Chennai operations
  
• GM completes $5.6-billion divestment in Allison Transmission
  
• Telkom Kenya attracts Airtel, Reliance Communication, Tata
• Tata Power in talks with Areva on nuclear equipment
• TCS to build IOM's new financial management system
• Micro Technologies FCCB Bonds listed in Singapore SE
• Suryachakra in talks with Orissa government for 1200 MW thermal project
  

• Court bans German rail strike
• Government tightens external commercial borrowing rules to check inflows
• India to lift restrictions on import of 20 items from Pakistan
• Paulson cautions against anti China trade bills
• Cabinet set to review pricing policy for farm sector
• Board of approvals clears two Infosys Technologies IT-ITeS SEZ projects
• Russia deploys new missile system
  
• US airlines sue for access to 9/11 investigators
  
• Climate protesters cannot disrupt Heathrow airport: High Court
  
• Russian N-Submarine test fires new missile
  
• Iran to produce a fighter jet
• Chidambaram urges exporters to get used to strong rupee
• Switzerland not to take Novartis case before WTO
• Income inequality rising in Asia: ADB
• PSU steel firms commit Rs230 crore social spend this year

• Govt raises ceiling on RBI's intervention bonds to Rs150,000 crore
• RBI fixes FRB 2015(II) bond rate at 7.48 per cent
• American Express fined $65 million

• Saint-Gobain to acquire Maxit Group from HeidelbergCement's
• Lenovo may acquire Packard Bell
• UK Takeover Panel asks Hunter to make firm offer for Dobbies or abandon bid
• Guardian publisher and Apax Partners may make joint bid for Emap
• Cathay Pacific to buy 5 Boeing 777s
  
• Virgin America takes off, from San Francisco
• Apple unveils, sleeker, faster iMac desktops
• Mattel names Chinese supplier of recalled toys
  
• Fiat teams up with Chery in China

• Kuldeep Goyal appointed CMD of BSNL