25-3 updates

Hot Pursuit

Unitech leads gainers in 'A' group
Receipt of funds from stake sale in group firm powers Tata Power
Firstsource Solutions gains on restructuring buzz
Expansion buzz fuels GAIL India
Mangalam Timber gallops as a promoter hikes stake
Booster dose for Glenmark Pharma foreign fund HSBC hikes stake
New order lifts Astra Microwave
RIL spurts on a likely increase in weightage in Nifty
India Cements moves north after block deal
Anu's Lab extends gains on stock-split plan
Strides Arcolab strengthens as a promoter revokes some of the pledged
shares
Infosys, ITC celebrate NSE's move towards free float indices
Corporate governance issue rattles Crompton Greaves counter
Sadbhav Engineering builds on rights issue plan
Novartis India in the pink of health as parent makes open offer
Interest rate cut hurts HDFC
Overseas expansion boosts 3i Infotech


Other Markets

Upsides still capped for yellow metal
Rupee bounces off 1-week low
Call money remains unchanged
Rupee at 1-week low
Call money opens higher
Copper goes down
Crude sheds some glaze
Bullion metals end lower

Mutual Funds

Balanced funds falls marginally over 3 moths period
NFO: Reliance Fixed Horizon Fund –XII-Series 4
Magnum Gilt Fund declares dividend
SBI MF declares dividend for 24 Months debt fund
SBI MF declares dividend for 370 days debt funds
SBI MF declares dividend
SBI MF declares dividend for 18 Months debt fund
SBI MF declares dividend for 13 Months debt funds
IDFC Money Manager Fund offers dividend
IDFC All Seasons Bond Fund (A) announces dividend
IDFC MF declares dividend for Government Securities Fund
IDFC Dynamic Bond Fund offers dividend
IDFC MF declares dividend for Super Saver Income Fund
ICICI Pru Liquid Plan declares dividend
ICICI Prudential MF declares dividend
UTI-Equity Fund (G) outperforms the Sensex over all time periods
ICICI Prudential MF declares dividend for QIP
SBI Arbitrage Opportunities fund declares dividend
HDFC MF launches 367 days plan
JP Morgan India Alpha Fund declares dividend
Escorts Income Plan declares dividend
UTI MF declares dividend under Short Term FMP
Tata Fixed Income Portfolio Fund declares dividend
Reliance MF launches Fixed Horizon Fund –XII-Series 4
Magnum Mid Cap Fund (G) buys Indiabulls Real Estate, Aban Offshore


Corporate News
GAIL signs annual MOU with Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Satyam wins Corporate University Xchange Awards
Graphite India to consider scheme of arrangement
Shri Chlochem appoints additional director
Hikal's board approves scheme of arrangement
Vintage Cards & Creations postpones board meeting
Indusind Bank launches new look branch model at Bandra
Zee News appoints additional director
Tata Power announces sale of partial holdings in Tata Teleservices
Anil Special Steel Industries allots equity shares
Span Diagnostics allots equity shares
Dishman Pharmaceuticals signs co-operation & joint API development
agreement
Ranbaxy Laboratories receives approval from TGA-Australia
Prraneta Industries to increase authorized capital
Tyco Telecommunications successfully transmits 40 gigabits per second
signal on Tata Communications' Trans Pacific undersea system
Mindteck India appoints additional directors
Astra Microwave Products secures order worth Rs 26 crore
Ministry of Corporate Affairs sanctions of amalgamation of Bongaigaon
Refinery & Petrochemicals
EPIC Energy receives 100 kVA order from Konkan Railway Corporation
Tata Communications announces sale of partial holdings in Tata
Teleservices
Sadbhav Engineering to issue securities
Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals to merge with Indian Oil Corporation
NDTV's equity shareholders, secured creditors & unsecured creditors
approves scheme of arrangement
Dharani Sugars & Chemicals appoints director
Bombay High Court approves scheme of amalgamation of Chembond Chemicals
Essel Propack appoints additional director
Diamant Investment & Finance adjourns board meeting
International Conveyors to issue equity shares
Bombay Cycle & Motor Agency to hold board meeting
Larsen & Toubro allots shares
PI Drugs & Pharmaceuticals appoints MD
GM Breweries to consider dividend