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Saturday, May 22, 2010

RESULTS

24 May: Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd, Tata Power Co. Ltd.

25 May: Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd.

26 May: Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Tata Steel Ltd. 27 May: Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd, Cairn India Ltd, Tata Motors Ltd.

28 May: Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd, Steel Authority of India Ltd, Unitech Ltd.

29 May: Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd.

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SUNDAY

THE BOARDS of India's largest private sector bank ICICI Bank Ltd and Bank of Rajasthan Ltd (BoR) will meet to finalize the acquisition of BoR by ICICI Bank. Last week, ICICI Bank announced it would take over BoR for around Rs3,000 crore.

MONDAY

PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh will addresses a press conference on the occasion of the first anniversary of UPAII.

AUCTION FOR BWA spectrum in the 2.3MHz band needed to offer mobile broadband will start. The auction has 11 operators vying for two slots of 20MHz of spectrum across the country at a reserve price of Rs1,750 crore.

TUESDAY

STATE-RUN NHPC Ltd will hold its annual results press conference in New Delhi.

CABINET SECRETARY K.M.

Chandrasekhar will hold a meeting regarding the Planning Commission's recommendations for charting a level playing field for domestic power generation equipment manufacturers.

UK-BASED global bank Standard Chartered Plc will come out with the first ever Indian depository receipts (IDR) issue.

The price band will be announced on 24 May and the IDRs will be listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange.

NATIONAL WORKSHOP on environmental regulation reforms will be organized to discuss environmental governance in India. The workshop will be chaired by minister of state for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh.

WEDNESDAY

PRESIDENT PRATIBHA Patil will start a five-day official visit to China to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

During her visit, Patil is expected to meet Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. The two sides will discuss bilateral, regional and global issues.

Oil India Ltd will hold its annual results press conference in New Delhi.

FRIDAY

INDIA'S LARGEST oil refiner Indian Oil Corp. Ltd will hold its annual financial results press conference in New Delhi.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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Tuesday
A round table discussion will be organized CUTS international CUTS Institute for Regulation and Competition (CIRC) and the Planning Commission of India in New Delhi. The Topic of discussion would be. “ Regulatory Reforms in India; Focus on Draft Regulatory Reform Bill”.
DEPARTMENT OF rural development will be organizing a workshop to discuss the draft vision document and annual work plan for 201011 to enable more effective implementation of the Mahat ma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Rural development min ister C.P. Joshi will chair the workshop, which would focus on addressing con straints such as low awareness, delayed wage payments, limited capabilities of `panchayats', etc.
WORLD AIDS vaccine day to be observed. It aims at creating AIDS awareness and stresses on the need for an AIDS vaccine. It also aims to get more people to partner for the research.
THURSDAY
THE DEPARTMENT of industrial poli cy and promotion will release the weekly inflation data for the week to 8 May.
THE AUSTRALIAN Trade Commission and the Australian trade and investment development agency will be organizing a seminar on “Winning Business and Investment with Australia“ in New Delhi.
The seminar will showcase the potential business and investment opportunities for businesses based in Delhi with Australia.
FRIDAY
THE EMPOWERED committee of state finance ministers is scheduled to meet in New Delhi to resume discus sions on the proposed goods and servic es tax (GST). The talks will now enter a crucial phase as stakeholders try to finalize the system's architecture.

SATURDAY
THE CONGRESSled United Progres sive Alliance government completes the first year of its second stint at the Cen tre. The government is expected to release a report card of its performance in the last one year.



RESULTS & IPOS
Results


17 May: Larsen and Toubro Ltd, NTPC Ltd, GAIL (India) Ltd, Karnataka Bank Ltd.
18 May: Icra Ltd.

19 May : Rural Electrification Corp. Ltd.

20 May : Grasim Industries Ltd, Jet Airways Ltd, Wockhardt Ltd.
21 May : ITC Ltd, Edelweiss Capital Ltd, Inox Leisure Ltd.

22 May: Bharat Forge Ltd, Divis Laboratories Ltd, NMDC Ltd.


IPO

18 May : Tarapur Transformers Ltd.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Upcoming Dividend earnings for you....

Scrip Code Scrip Name Ex-Date Purpose Rs.
590059 Bihar Tubes 5/7/10 Interim Dividend 1
532379 Firstobject Tech 5/7/10 Interim Dividend 0.1
500179 HCL Infosystems 5/7/10 3rd Interim Dividend 2
532735 R Systems 5/7/10 Dividend 2.4
522074 Elgi Equipments 5/10/10 Interim Dividend 1.3
506109 Genesys Intl 5/10/10 Interim Dividend 1
500325 RIL 5/10/10 Dividend 7
532765 Usher Agro 5/10/10 Interim Dividend 1
505255 GMM Pfaudler 5/11/10 Interim Dividend 0.7
524735 Hikal 5/11/10 Interim Dividend 4
532749 Allcargo Glob 5/12/10 Dividend 0.5
500165 Kansai Nerolac 5/12/10 Dividend 15
532480 Allahabad Bank 5/13/10 Dividend 5.5
500530 Bosch 5/13/10 Dividend 30
533181 Intrasoft Tech 5/13/10 Interim Dividend 0.8
507180 Kesar Enter 5/13/10 Scheme of Arrangement -
531539 Rishabh Digha 5/13/10 Dividend 1
506146 Visagar Poly 5/13/10 Interim Dividend 0.1
523457 BOC India 5/14/10 Dividend 1.5
500150 Foseco India 5/14/10 Interim Dividend 1
590084 KANCO ENTER 5/14/10 Scheme of Arrangement -
524109 Kabra Extr 5/17/10 Stock Split from Rs. 10/- to Rs. 5/- -
505890 Kennametal 5/17/10 Interim Dividend 13
532215 Axis Bank 5/20/10 Dividend 12
500089 DIC India 5/20/10 Dividend 4
505893 Hindustan Hardy 5/20/10 Dividend 1
500313 Oil Country Tub 5/20/10 Dividend 2
526725 Sandesh 5/20/10 Dividend 3
513097 Shivalik Bimet 5/20/10 Interim Dividend 0.2
503657 Veer Energy 5/20/10 Dividend 0.1

Monday, May 10, 2010

Merger & Acquisitions

TATA TEA PEPSI STRIKE DEAL FOR BEVERAGES JV: Tata Tea and World No 2 cola maker Pepsico on April 9 said they had signed a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture for non-carbonated beverages focused on health and wellness.

AIR INDIA-SATS JV: National air carrier Air India and Singapore Airport Terminal Services (SATS) have signed an agreement to form a single 50:50 joint venture company to house their three existing ground-and-cargo-handling JVs in Banglore and Hyderabad.

INDIA INC’S M&Ms TOUCH %19BN IN 2010: Driven by Bharti Airtel’s %10.7 billion takeover deal for the African assets of kuwait’s Zain Telecom, the total value of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the country in the first quarter of 2010 has nearly quadrupled to $19 billion.

VODAFONE TOUCHES 100MN CONSUMER BASE: Vodafone, which acquired a majority stake in Hutchison-Essar for a massive %11.1 billion, has now a consumer base of 100 million as compared to 28 million in 2007.

NALCO LISTS RECORD METAL PRODUCTION: National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco), a Navratna unit, has achieved the highest-ever metal production of 4.31 lakh tones in 2009-10, in 2008-09, with 19.4 percent increase.

SANY GROUP OPENS FIRST PLANT IN INDIA: China-based Sany Group, a global major in the construction machinery industry, on April 12 inaugurated its first manufacturing facility in India at Chakan near Pune. This plant, with an investment of %70 million, is the group’s second manufacturing facility in Asia after China.

TATAS RENEW SINGUR LEASE:Tata Motors has paid the lease rent of Rs 1 crore till March next year for its land to Singur, where the company’s small car Nano was initially scheduled to roll out from.

RELIANCE INFRA COMMISSION 600MW UNIT: Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Infrastructure on April 4 said it has commissioned a 600 MW power unit at the Rajiv Gandhi Khedar Thermal Power Plant in Haryana that after completion will provide 15,000 jobs.

GEMS AND JEWELLERY EXPORTS UP:India’s gems and jewellery export continued to shine for the fourth consecutive month with consignments growing by an impressive annual 55 percent of $2.2 billion in February , 2010.

UNITED SPIRITS BECOMES WORLD NO 2: United Spirits (USL), the flagship company of the Vijay Mallya-promoted UB Group, said on April 7 that it had crossed sales volume of 100 million cases in 2009-10, making it the world’s No 2 spirits company in volume terms and is certain to be the number one by next fiscal.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

RESULTS & IPO

RESULTS

10 May: HT Media Ltd

11 May: Hindalco Industries Ltd, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, Ran baxy Laboratories Ltd, Bajaj Hindustan Ltd.


12 May: Bajaj Auto Ltd, Bajaj Holdings and Investment Ltd.

13 May: Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, Koutons Retail India Ltd.

14 May: DLF Ltd, Reliance Infra structure Ltd, State Bank of India, National Aluminium Co. Ltd, Reliance Natural Resources Ltd, Reliance Power Ltd, Federal Bank Ltd.

IPO LISTING

10 May: Talwalkars Better Value Fitness Ltd

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TUESDAY

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS minister S.M.Krishna is expected to visit Kazakhstan for three days to draw a road map to implement the agreements and initiatives that were agreed between two countries when Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited New Delhi in January 2009.

WEDNESDAY

THE MARCH 2010 Index of Industrial Production will be announced . The data will provide a clearer picture of the economic recovery underway.

A GROUP of companies that includes ONGC Videsh Ltd, Indian Oil Corp. Ltd, Oil India Ltd, Spain's Repsol YPF and Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd is likely to sign contracts with the Venezuelan government for developing the multi-billion integrated oil project in the Carabobo 1 Norte and Carabobo 1 Centro blocks in the Orinoco region. The contract signing in Venezuela is expected to be witnessed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and India oil minister Murli Deora.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE and annual session 2010 on the theme “Implementing Inclusive Growth and Development“ organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry to be held in New Delhi. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the conference and home minister P.
Chidambaram will give the valedictory address.

ECONOMIC THINK tank Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations is jointly organizing with the International Monetary Fund a discussion to debate the contents of the fund's study “Asia Pacific Regional Out look, Spring 2010“. Indian finance ministry's chief economic adviser Kaushik Basu will participate in the debate.

THURSDAY

INDUSTRY BODY Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry is organizing a panel discussion on “India's Evolving Role in the Global Economy“. International Monetary Fund's managing director Dominique Strauss Kahn will participate in the panel discussion.

FRIDAY

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS minister S.M.Krishna leaves for Iran for a two day visit. His visit to Iran on crucial regional issues was postponed twice. Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki had invited Krishna to take part in Navroz celebrations on 28 and 29 March, which were deferred to 30 and 31 March.

THE DEPARTMENT of industrial policy and promotion will release the monthly Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation data for April. In March, WPI g inflation rate stood at 9.9%.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

RESULTS & IPO

Results

3 May:
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd, Idea Cellular Ltd, JSW Steel Ltd, United Bank of India.

4 May:
Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, Syndicate Bank.

5 May:
Lupin Ltd, United Breweries Ltd.

6 May:
Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd, Punjab National Bank, Union Bank of India.

7 May:
Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd, Bank of India, Cipla Ltd.

IPO closing


3 May:
SJVN Ltd

4 May:
Jaypee Infratech Ltd

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MONDAY:

FINLAND FOREIGN minister Alexander Stubb will be in India for a two day visit.
He is expected to hold discussions with external affairs minister S.M. Krishna on Finnish-Indian relations.

TRADE DATA for March will be announced. Exports are expected to post higher growth after almost a year of decline.

AXIS BANK Ltd and Max New York Life Insurance will announce their ban cassurance partnership.


THE FOURTH seminar in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations-Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung monthly seminar series will be organized. The seminar will be delivered by Rajesh Chakrabarti, assistant professor, Indian School of Business on “Independent Directors and Firm Value: Evidence from a Natural Experiment“.

A Confederation of Indian Industry session on “Strengthening India Australia Trade Relations “ will be organized. Minister for commerce and industry Anand Sharma and Australia's trade minister Simon Crean will be chief guests at the session.

WEDNESDAY

A THREE-day meet of the core com mittee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)--its apex decision-making body--will begin. The party leadership is likely to decide on the dates, location and participants for its “plenum“, a rare meeting of its senior leaders to prepare for next year's assembly elections in its bastion states of West Bengal and Kerala.

OVERSEAS PRIVATE Investment Corporation's (Opic) three-day global investment conference on renewable energy and clean technology will begin in New Delhi. Opic is a US government agency responsible for facilitating American private sector investment in emerging markets.

THURSDAY

A TWO-day Confederation of Indian Industry international conference on “Intelligent Urbanization--Smart Solutions for Inclusive and Sustainable Communities“ will be held. Planning Commision member Arun Maira, ministry of urban development secretary M. Ram achandran and lieutenant-governor of Delhi Tejendra Khanna will be chief guests at the session.

FRIDAY

PARLIAMENT'S BUDGET session is expected to conclude. The nearly three month long session, with a one-month recess in between, saw the passage of the Finance Bill and the Union Budget 201011 amid stormy protests from the the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Left and other parties demanding measures to combat rising prices.

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