Stocks in news: Entegra, TV18, HCL Tech

Stocks in news: 

• Board meetings:
  Entegra board meet on Dec 19 to consider rights issue
  Phoenix Mills board meet on Dec 19 on stock split
  Dhampur Sugar Mills audited results for year ended Sep
  Sanwaria Agro Oils on splitting FV of shares from Rs 2 to Re 1
  Mudra Lifestyle on preferential issue of warrants to promoters; FCCB / GDR / QIP issue
  Gujarat Fluorochemicals on splitting FV of shares from Rs 2 to Re 1
  Patel Integrated on fund raising
• Ex-dividend:
  Bannari Amman Sugars (Rs 7/sh), GAIL (Rs 4/sh), Shree Renuka Sugars (Rs 2/sh)
• Ex-bonus:
  Rasi Electrodes @ 2:5
• Exide Industries, Nandan Exim come out of ND period
• Ceat to be suspended after trading of Dec 24
• New listing:
  Jyothy Labs (issue price Rs 690), was overall subscribed 45x
• IFCI stake sale
  Fin Secy says deal likely to be sealed today
  IFCI to retain financial institution status post stake sale
  Sterlite-Morgan Stanley not sought banking licence for IFCI
• Tourism Finance board meet today for QIP issue, likely to offer to IFCI, IFCI has increased stake in TFCI from 18% to 21.24% via creeping acquisition - BS
• ICICI Ventures and Citigroup Ventures likely to pull out of DR Reddy's R&D co on concern over viability of its experimental drug - ET
• Deccan board meet to consider Accenture report on Kingfisher-Deccan merger due today
• Essar Oil plans USD 2bn private placement, management denies any such plans - ET
• JLR Trade Union Says
  Ford May Name Preferred Bidder Before Christmas
  Ford Unlikely To Retain Any Stake
  Jaguar or Landrover Will Not Lose Brand Prestige If Owner Is Indian
  See A Great Future For JLR With Tata
• M&M set to be out of the race for Ford brands - Reports
• Power Grid plans foray into entertainment biz, in talks with ZEE for a possible JV to expand fibre optic network - BL
• RCF plans to about 800 acres of land in and around Mumbai, will develop 2 lakh sqft of land on its own that will partially be used in-house and rest for commercial purpose -ET
• Tata Small car set to offer 25kmpl mileage 
• Finmin has opposed the proposal to extend tax concessions to captive power projects - TOI
• TV18
  Enters 50:50 JV with Jagran Prakshan for Hindi biz newspaper
  To start Hindi business paper in 2008
  To launch biz paper in other Indian languages as well
  To be initially funded by equity infusion by both cos
• NSE F&O curb:
  Aptech, Alok Industries, Essar Oil, Gitanjali Gems, IFCI, Nagar Fert, Power Grid
• Out of curb:
  Adlabs, Neyveli, Rajesh Exports
• HCL Technologies signs multi-year, multi service agreement with Merck & Co Inc to provide strategic support to Merck's IT initiatives
• Reliance Energy to bid for 3 power projects in Africa - ET
• IOC sets aside USD 3bn for overseas acquisition - Agencies
• Manaksia IPO closes today; subscribed 2.37 times till now
• Aries Agro IPO closes today; subscribed 0.96 times till now
• Hindustan Oil Exploration’s production from PY-3 field temporarily suspended
• Kopran promoters & Cleawater Capital in talks to sell their 44% stake to Mumbai based unlisted co Maneesh Pharma - ET