Stocks in news: Indiabulls Fin, Uttam Sugar, Essar Shipping

Stocks in news:

• Board meetings:
  Indiabulls Financial on fund raising
  Patni on results, share buy back
• Ex-dividend:
  Akruti City (Rs 1.80/sh), Amrutanjan (Rs 4/sh), GE Shipping (Rs 3.50/sh), HCL Infosystems (Rs 2/sh), KCP (Rs 2.50/sh), Madras Cements (Rs 10/sh), Nagarjuna Agrichem (Re 1/sh), Neyveli (Re 1/sh), Orbit Corp (Rs 1.50/sh), SEL Manufacturing (Re 1/sh) and Ramco Industries (Rs 5/sh)
• Exclusive:
  Tata Motors, Ford Likely To Ink MoU In Feb: Sources
• Bajaj-TVS
  Hearing In Bajaj-TVS Patent Dispute Case Ends In Madras HC Today
  Madras HC To Deliver Judgment By Weekend Or Early Next Week
• Indiabulls open offer for Piramyd Retail postponed
• Tulsi Extrusions IPO closes today; subscribed 0.77 times till now
• IRB Infrastructure IPO closes today; subscribed 0.88 times till now
• Wockhardt Hospital IPO slated to close today; subscribed 0.02 times till now; Bankers say Wockhardt has asked SEBI to extend IPO by 1 day
• RBI allows FIIs to buy up to 60% in PTC India
• Uttam Sugar board approves rights issue
• Cable TV players, telecom operators get I&B nod for IPTV
• Essar Shipping to raise $1bn through a mix of equity and quasi-equity instruments - ET
• HC to hear RIL, RNRL case today
• Tata Steel loses race to buy rights to iorn ore mine in Liberia to SA Delta Mining - ET
• SC nixes Jindal Steel's chromium deal, Orissa to call for re-bid - DNA
• Wanbury picks up 20% stake in Mumbai based Bravo Healthcare - DNA
• Used car prices fall 15-30% ahead of Nano entry - BS
• Maruti may lauch Rs 1.5 lakh car by end of this year or early 2009 to counter Nano - TOI