Advertising & Marketing
Bausch & Lomb eyes vision care market
Sorini chocolates in India
Foster's Olympics promo
Titan unveils new collection

Come September, HBO to serve film feast
Cruise through Indian Ocean on the wave of luxury
Agriculture
Brazil move worries exporters
Coconut growers seek steps to check price crash
BOOE to begin palmolein futures next week
Mounting pressure to clear wheat stocks
Sugar industry seeks creation of buffer stock
Vigorous in most regions
Airlines
Sales tax on ATF -- `Govt sympathetic towards AI plight'
AI to open bids for Airbus lease today
Automobiles
Volvo India joins chorus against used car imports
Banking and Finance
Universal banking, for whom?
RBI: Trying to steer clear of anachronisms?
Exchange controls in sight?
Centurion Bank takes 26 pc in tea portal
Bank staff threaten stir against privatisation
Can Fin sets Rs 360-cr sanctions target
PSB hikes PLR to 12.75 pc
IRDA invites registration applications
Canara Bank plans IPO by Oct-end
GTB ties up with BPL Mobile for mobile banking
ICICI launches online moneymanager
Cement
Last opportunity to Coromandal Cements
Commodities
Cotton prices rule steady
Corporate
TNPL plans retiring debt
Nicco to get TDB aid for local cable tech
Mysore Lamp wind-up confirmed by BIFR
Piaggio Greaves plans range of 3-wheelers launch next year
NPIL to file patent for `Aablaquin' in foreign countries
Zee Interactive to launch 24-hour learning channel
Indfrag Biosciences plans expansion
Gramophone renaming part of repositioning move
Shareholders vote on McDowell merger issue
Maharashtra to press BSES payment: Tata
`CIAL will come out of red by July 2001'
`Dadiseth is someone we know and respect'
SAARC region -- Investment cap raised for Indian cos
NYLIC picking up $10-m stake in Gujarat Pipavav
Courts
Coconut, copra not essential goods: HC
Economy
NCAER maintains real GDP at 7.2%, despite mixed signals

`Poor nations should have greater say in world market'
Moody's warns against debt repayment defaults
Focus on deficit, not exchange rate: Sachs
Report of the Eleventh Finance Commission - I : Missing the equity goal?
Editorial
Merger moves
Fast track
Top Cassettes: Happy tunes
Fertilisers
Erratic monsoon sees DAP sales dip
Financial Performance
HCL Technologies net up 97 per cent
HCL Infosystems to pay Rs 2.5
HMT net loss up at Rs 71 cr
Floriculture
Apeda plans marketing centre in Europe
Foreign Trade
German investments on the rise
Amnesty scheme sought for export obligation defaults
Forex
Re touches new low at 45.85/88
Hotels
Bangalore records higher hotel occupancy rate
Impact
Cybertech Systems: Uncertainty ahead
TVS Suzuki: Marginal brands shelved
Gujarat Ambuja Cements: Flat trends in store
Information Technology
Net sales on an uptrend
IT Act to be set in motion on Aug 15
Goldstone revamp: PwC to undertake valuation exercise
Xerox Modi proposes to reposition software unit
Ved Webtech develops `talking mail'
Everypath flags off wireless operations
Soft Corner opens multimedia centre
Compaq expands manufacturing capacity
Conexant plans to strengthen base
ADIVA Group launches Savings4ever.com
Shapre in jt venture with eADvant
Promotion campaign from Satyam Infoway
Acer India launches server
SAS solutions at San Jose forum
Spice Telecom launches WAP
Speck Systems plans major expansion
VIS inks deal with Cisco for data networking
Abacus launches solutions for travel industry
Infrastructure
DPR planned to widen JN port harbour, access channel
PIB clears Surat-Manor highway project
Insurance
IMPAL to take stake in SFL insurance venture
Private insurers must fulfil social tasks: PM
Miscellaneous

`Prosperity without faith is not enduring' -- His Holiness Sri Jayendra Saraswati of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam
Lighted fuse?
Escape routes
Mutual Funds
Dhanavarsha-2 to be redeemed early
Petroleum
IOC exports lubricants to Bangladesh
Pharmaceuticals
Zydus Cadila plant gets S. African nod
Definitive duty on Vitamin C recommended
Plantations
Fair demand at ICTA auctions
Politics
Pakistan still occupies key Drass point
Power
Alstom Power bags Hazira order
TNEB may revoke escrow cover for Videocon project
States
Biotech enterprises zone mooted in TN
Drive to check Chennai air pollution soon
Govt to procure coconut from ryots
A brigand's story
Steel
E-com seminar on steel to be held on Aug 25
Stocks
GE Shipping steams ahead; Sterlite dives
Bond funds risk-free, not anymore
OTCEI to extend trading hours, change settlement period
Taxation
STPs, FTZs may get higher tax breaks
Technical Analysis
Bears dominate intra-day
Technology

Invest more in defence R&D, Fernandes tells pvt sector
Telecommunications
Joint bid for long-distance operations -- SingTel likely to pump in another Rs 1,000 cr
High resolution satellite data to be regulated
Textiles
Readymade garment exports reflect buoyant trend