* AGRICULTURE: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has deferred a decision on changes to the urea policy.
* AVIATION: West Bengal 's new airport in Andal is set to miss the December deadline, and is now expected to commence operations from Apr 15.
* EXCHANGES: The court of Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors has extended National Spot Exchange's former managing director and chief executive officer Anjani Sinha's judicial custody till Nov 27.
* FINANCE: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Chairman Yogesh Agarwal has resigned from office with immediate effect.
* HOSPITALITY: Sahara Group has put up for sale three iconic hotels--The Plaza, Dream Downtown, and Grosvenor House--with an Arab business family said to have made a 1-bln-pound-sterling offer for all of them.
* INFRASTRUCTURE: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a meeting cleared proposals to set up greenfield international airports at Navi Mumbai and Pune. The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corp has invited interested bidders to prepare a perspective plan for the planned Bengaluru- Mumbai Economic Corridor. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved 5.4-bln-rupee project for six-laning of the Jalandhar-Amritsar section of NH 1.
* INVESTMENT: Foreign Investment Promotion Board approved 14 foreign direct investment proposals, but did not take up Vodafone's proposal. (Cogencis) The Cabinet has deferred decision on easing foreign direct investment norms for real estate sector.
* REGULATORY: RBI will hold open market operations to purchase up to 80 bln rupees of bonds on Monday. Dollar demand of majority of oil marketing companies has already returned to the forex market and the rest will be brought back when markets are calmer, RBI Governor Rajan said. Rajan has said no single data point would determine future policy moves of the central bank. RBI has said there was no particular timeline to get government bonds included in key global indices such as JP Morgan's Emerging Market Bond Index.
* TELECOM: India October GSM user addition 4.34 mln against 4.41 mln in September. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal labelled BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's supposition that another spectrum scam was in the offing as "wild and baseless".
* AVIATION: West Bengal 's new airport in Andal is set to miss the December deadline, and is now expected to commence operations from Apr 15.
* EXCHANGES: The court of Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors has extended National Spot Exchange's former managing director and chief executive officer Anjani Sinha's judicial custody till Nov 27.
* FINANCE: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Chairman Yogesh Agarwal has resigned from office with immediate effect.
* HOSPITALITY: Sahara Group has put up for sale three iconic hotels--The Plaza, Dream Downtown, and Grosvenor House--with an Arab business family said to have made a 1-bln-pound-sterling offer for all of them.
* INFRASTRUCTURE: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a meeting cleared proposals to set up greenfield international airports at Navi Mumbai and Pune. The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corp has invited interested bidders to prepare a perspective plan for the planned Bengaluru- Mumbai Economic Corridor. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved 5.4-bln-rupee project for six-laning of the Jalandhar-Amritsar section of NH 1.
* INVESTMENT: Foreign Investment Promotion Board approved 14 foreign direct investment proposals, but did not take up Vodafone's proposal. (Cogencis) The Cabinet has deferred decision on easing foreign direct investment norms for real estate sector.
* REGULATORY: RBI will hold open market operations to purchase up to 80 bln rupees of bonds on Monday. Dollar demand of majority of oil marketing companies has already returned to the forex market and the rest will be brought back when markets are calmer, RBI Governor Rajan said. Rajan has said no single data point would determine future policy moves of the central bank. RBI has said there was no particular timeline to get government bonds included in key global indices such as JP Morgan's Emerging Market Bond Index.
* TELECOM: India October GSM user addition 4.34 mln against 4.41 mln in September. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal labelled BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's supposition that another spectrum scam was in the offing as "wild and baseless".
