Accountancy
CG syndrome
King without a crown -- II
ICAI `vision' puts focus on bigger market access
Advertising & Marketing

It's showtime, and how!
Price as a marketing tool
Staying innovative

``At Ernst & Young we want to support entrepreneurial spirit.''

Mineral water on tap
Big ad spenders cool to Olympics TV slots
Northwest Airlines, KLM to expand services
Nine gold on DD Metro
LIBA entrance test along with XLRI

BPL's top-end audio line hits the shelf
Brewers promote beer as softer option to hard liquor
Indian Terrain hopes to break new ground
Where is the punch in cigarette ad warnings?
Agriculture
Groundnut needs more rains in Saurashtra
Venture capitalists see agri research as good bet
ICAR identifies 3 new wheat varieties

Farmers asked to reap free trade benefits
Biotech regulations to be revamped
Airlines
Emirates may bring A-3XX if it lands AI stake'
Indo-French aerospace meet focusses on closer contacts
MAS flights to Bangalore, Hyderabad permitted
Banking and Finance
MCC Finance directors held
Bank of Punjab to expand network in South, East

IOB prices IPO at par
Dual control to what end?
Sundaram Fin to reopen FD window -- Reduces deposit rates

IDBI Bank launches smart card
HSBC.com to debut in Nov
`NBFCs to number less than 1000'
Cartoon

"Can I have another piece with more squares on it?"
Chemicals
Task force to review solvent order formed
Coal
Singareni Collieries pares losses by 40 pc -- Targets 32 mt output
Commodities
Gold derivaties study comes up with interesting findings
Corporate
Dabur hopes to double turnover
Web site on ESOP launched
Transitions Optical subsidiary
BPL launches PRO FX range in Mumbai
HC okays demerger of Novartis agribusiness
FAG Bearings to launch rupee-based portal
`Hugely positive' event for both
P.Nag quits Duncans, joins Bombay Dyeing
Soonawala made Vice-Chairman of Tata Sons
DCA withdraws 2 departmental circulars
Ways India CEO
Courts
SC ruling on NSCs claims by successors of the deceased
Economy
Customs collections dip despite surge in oil imports
Central Asia corpus fund mooted
China urged to speed up reforms in State-owned units
Editorial
Oil worries
Fast track
Vikas WSP: Slip and slide
Foreign Trade
West Europe, Asia and Oceania drive Q1 exports
India, Croatia spot areas to drive trade
Indo-US dialogue to focus on investment links
Forex
Why canonise exchange rate
Impact
Cyanamid Agro: Just consolidation
CIPLA: Good, but not enough
Information Technology
Geekay Imaging to raise Rs 4.7 cr through IPO
Computer language
Microsoft, Infosys set for alliance
Rediff invests in ICICI portals
Sify ties up with Landmark
Brainvisa develops learning facility
IT industry urged to explore wafer tech
Prizedjobs -- A dotcom on its own feet
Nasscom sees boom in IT-enabled services -- Projected revenue at Rs 4,000 cr
`B2B players must think global'
Sierra Atlantic, Entreon in e-biz solution pact
SRA centre for Arula technology
KLG System ups stake in Dutch jt venture
Computers for the common man
ICICI arm to invest $6 m in Celstream
Ampersand bags AXIUM order
Miscellaneous
Serious issue manhandled
Struggling for life beyond ideology
Paper/Packaging
Paper industry on a comeback trail
Petroleum
World over the oil band
IPCL, HPL discuss market sharing
Reliance Petro pegs export income at Rs 3,800 cr
Plantations
Call for drive to raise coffee consumption
Policy
Fuelling a crisis
Politics
Coalition politics
Power
States' power reforms `progressing'
Shipping
Emergency Exercise Award for SCI
States
AP push to projects in backward areas
Karnataka gives permits to De Beers, Australian major
Tripura seeks IT majors' help to exploit potential
Karnataka seeks higher allocation from DBEL
Jt venture for auto cone winders in Coimbatore
Textile meet
Steel
Steel Ministry okays RINL expansion plan
Stocks
Indo Rama Synthetics to delist from 2 bourses
Hindalco, Nestle take centrestage
Infosys stock turns weak
Taxation
Book on handling I-T problems
Tea
Corpus mooted for generic promotion of tea
Technical Analysis
Bears dominate
Technology
NRIs to detail GIST plan at Round Table
Telecommunications

`Need-based technologies apt for rural telephony'
Textiles
Telengana Spg: Meet called to discuss viability
Transport
SER's April-August traffic increases