Stocks in news: Essar Oil, Ranbaxy, JP Associates

Stocks in news:

• Board meetings:
  Essar Oil board to consider issue of securities on preferential basis to promoters
• Ex-dividend:
  Greaves Cotton (Rs 2/sh), Manugraph India (Rs 2/sh), Patels Airtemp (50 paise/sh) and TV18 (Rs 1.25/sh)
• COAI wants all applications for spectrum cleared before being given to Rcom - PTI
• NSE bars further F&O positions in Bongaigaon, JP Hydro, & Arvind Mills as 95% of marketwide limit reached
• Balrampur Chini and Omaxe out of NSE F&O curb
• Karvy:
  ICICI Ventures & Barings Pvt Eq To Hold Between 25-30% In Karvy
  Karvy Stock Broking Valued At Rs 1500-1600 Cr
• Ranbaxy recalls 73 m pills of Gabapentin in US retail market after discovering impurities - ET
• ICICI Ventures eyes Shalimar Paints, likely to table Rs 450 cr offer - ET
• Non-resident Indian firms will have to pay flat 10% capital gains tax from off-market deal - ET 
• Formula One tie up with JP Associates subsidiary JPSK sports to stage Indian Grand Prix race in 2010
• NCDEX, MXC vie to run carbon credit exchange - TOI
• Carlsberg, Heineken raise bid for S&N by 4% to more than 7bn pounds - Agencies
• Deccan seeks Govt nod to fly to gulf - ET
• Air India, Jet Airways lose market share to SpiceJet, Indigo in Oct - ET
• City gas distribution may lose exclusivity - DNA
• IndusInd Bank seeks strategic partner, may issue equity to Foreign Bank
• Tata's Infiniti eyes 35% stake in retailer Vivek - Mint
• New listing:
  Kotak PSU Bank Exchange Traded Fund
  Sri Adhikari Brothers to resume trading
  Ventura Textiles to resume trading; base price Rs 72, circuit filter
• Prajay Engineers’ subsidiary Prajay Holdings gets commitment of FDI of USD 36 mn for project at Hyderabad
• Goldstone Technologies signs deal with two cos for distributing IPTV services in Malaysia & Thailand
• CCEA approves a bill to be introduced in Parliament for amending Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act to allocate coal blocks on competitive bidding basis
• Cabinet allows export of non-basmati rice priced over USD 450/t