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FREE STOCKS ALERT - 25.10.2013

* ADVANCE METERING TECHNOLOGY: Has acquired 51% stake in R.S. Infosystems Pvt Ltd for 30.09 mln rupees. 

* ALLAHABAD BANK: Is likely to raise 3 bln rupees through qualified institutional placement by March. 

* ANDHRA PAPER MILLS: To make copier paper for global electronics manufacturer Hewlett Packard at Rajahmundry unit. 

* ATUL LTD: Jul-Sep net profit up 14% on year at 555.4 mln rupees and net sales rises 6.9% to 5.74 bln rupees. 

* BIOCON: Reported Jul-Sep consolidated net profit of 1.02 bln rupees, beating analysts' estimate of 943 mln rupees. 

* BRITANNIA INDUSTRIES: Following report of its plans to sell its bakery arm, the company said it routinely keeps evaluating various opportunities of rationalising or restructuring its business.

* CHAMBAL FERTILISERS AND CHEMICALS: Promoters have increased their stake in the company nominally by 38 bps to 56.79% as on Sep 30, from 56.41% as on Jun 30. 

* DECCAN CHRONICLE HOLDINGS: Serious Fraud Investigation Office has charged the company and its directors with as many as 20 sections of the Companies Act. 

* DEEPAK FERTILIZERS: Posted Jul-Sep net profit of 454.4 mln rupees, up 11.81% on year and net sales of 9.84 bln rupees up 42.87% on year.

* GUJARAT PIPAVAV: IL&FS Private Equity Trust has offloaded 6 mln shares of the company for an estimated $300 mln. 

* HDFC BANK: Will raise $500 mln through its Bahrain branch via issuance of senior unsecured notes maturing on Nov 30, 2016, which carry an annual coupon of 3%. 

* IDEA CELLULAR: Posted Jul-Sep net profit of 4.48 bln rupees, up 86.5% on year and net sales of 63.15 bln rupees, up 19% on year. The Delhi High Court has adjourned to Mar 27 the hearing on the contempt plea of Department of Telecommunications against Idea Cellular, its Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and other company officials. 

* INDIABULLS POWER: Posted Jul-Sep net loss of 256.69 mln rupees compared with 0.09 mln rupees year ago. 

* INFOSYS: Has expanded its executive council by appointing 12 new members, taking the total headcount of the operating decision-making body to 30. 

* JET AIRWAYS: Expects to raise $150 mln through bankers of Etihad Airways by December. Plans to raise $300 mln in external commercial borrowings this quarter.

* JK TYRE & INDUSTRIES: Posted Jul-Sep net profit of 657.8 mln rupees, down 5.11% on year and net sales of 17.99 bln rupees up 4.03% on year. Promoters to hike stake in the company by 5% through preferential shares. 

* MARUTI SUZUKI: Has shelved expansion plan for its first diesel engine factory. 

* MAX INDIA : Promoter Liquid Investment pledged 4.8 mln shares of the company on Oct 17. 

* NMDC: Jul-Sep consolidated net profit down 21.5% on year at 13.18 bln rupees and net sales declined 5.1% to 24.78 bln rupees. 

* OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORP: To seek compensation if it finds that RELIANCE INDUSTRIES drew its share of gas from a reservoir that overlaps the
respective companies' fields in the KG-D6 basin.

* RELIANCE INDUSTRIES: The Central Bureau of Investigation is reopening an old case involving alleged malpractices in handling issues related to the KG-D6 block by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons. 

* ROLTA INDIA: Posted Jul-Sep net profit of 702.6 mln rupees, up 11.15% on year and net sales of 6.28 bln rupees up 33.53% on year. 

* RURAL ELECTRIFICATION CORP: May acquire first phase of Abhijeet Group's 1,080 MW Jharkhand power project to recover dues. 

* SKS MICROFINANCE: Promoter entity of the company, SKS Trust Advisors Private, is planning to move the Company Law Board against the company. 

* TATA POWER: Compliance Advisor Ombudsman has found faults with International Finance Corp's funding to the company's arm Coastal Gujarat Power's Mundra power project. 

* TATA SPONGE IRON: Posted Jul-Sep net profit of 183.3 mln rupees, down 28.9% on year and net sales of 1.80 bln rupees down 4.4% on year. 

* THOMAS COOK INDIA : Posted Jul-Sep net profit of 151.8 mln rupees, up 51% on year and net sales of 4.37 bln rupees up 313% on year. 

* TT LTD: Has entered into a $10-mln pact with a Chinese textile manufacturer for cotton yarn sale. 

* UNICHEM LABORATORIES: Has received abbreviated new drug approval from US Food and Drug Administration for amlodipine besylate tablets, used to treat hypertension and high blood pressure. 

* V-MART RETAIL: Net profit for Jul-Sep jumped 116% on year to 28.13 mln rupees. 

* WIPRO: Dell has poached Anand Sankaran from the company where he was the head of global infrastructure services.