* BANKING: The finance ministry has asked "small" state-owned banks within a larger consortium of lenders to register their dissent in writing when such banks undertake haircuts while restructuring corporate loans, a government official said.
* DIVESTMENT: Government seeks to raise 50 bln rupees through exchange-traded funds in 2013-14 (Apr-Mar) as part of its 400-bln-rupee divestment plan.
* ENERGY: The petitioner in the Kudankulam nuclear power plant case has moved a fresh application in the Supreme Court, seeking directions to restrain the government from commissioning the project, alleging substandard equipment were used in it.
* FMCG: The West Bengal government will impose an additional 10% value added tax on cigarettes sold in the state. Maharashtra Food & Drug Administration has cancelled Johnson & Johnson India's license to manufacture cosmetics at its Mulund facility in Mumbai.
* LOGISTICS: Vedanta and Essar are in race to bag the 8.45-bln-rupee ore handling complex project at Visakhapatnam port.
* REGULATORY: SEBI has allowed infrastructure debt funds to raise money through private placement to less than 50 investors as an alternative to making a new fund offer to the public and has also allowed foreign institutional investors to invest in such funds.
* TELECOM: After refusal of two judges from hearing BHARTI GROUP head Sunil Bharti Mittal and ESSAR GROUP promoter Ravi Ruia's pleas challenging the 2G trial court's summons to them in the excess spectrum allocation case, another bench will now hear their plea on Thursday.
