Stocks in news:

• Board meetings:
  Esab India and Nestle results
• Ex-dividend:
  BEML (Rs 5.50/sh)
• Sun outage from today till Mar 18; no trading between 11:45-12:30 hours; closing time extended to 16:15
• RBI report
  Working Group On Interest Rate Futures Releases Report
  Panel Favours RBI Nod To Banks To Take Trading Positions In Rate Fut
  Panel Favours Conditional Nod To FIIs' Rate Futures Long Position
  Panel Favours FIIs' Rate Futures Short Positions For Hedging
• FIIs need RBI nod to buy further shares of Kalindee Rail Nirman as their holding reaches 24% limit
• RBI allows FIIs to buy up to 100% in Infotech Enterprises
• SAIL Saleable Steel Feb Output Up 7% YoY At 1.1 mt
• Eicher Motors Cuts Prices Of Trucks, Buses By Up To Rs 19,000
• Jindal Steel Says To Cut Price By Rs 500/tonne On Excise Cut
• Govt says
  To Sell Assets Of UTI-I In FY09: NW18
  Likely To Earn Net Rs 9,000 Cr Via UTI-I Asset Sale: NW18
  Redemption Commitment Of Rs 14,500 Cr On UTI-I Bonds: NW18
• Tata Tele-Virgin JV
  Telecom Secy Asks Licencing Wing To Check Conformity Of JV With Rules
  Getting Deal Examined In Light Of Fears Raised By Parts Of Industry
• ACC Feb Cement Sales At 1.69 mt Vs 1.44 mt YoY: NW18
• AV Birla Group Feb Cement Sales Up 5.3% YoY At 2.73 mt
• aurionPro Solutions to acquire US-based SENA Systems
• ANG Auto board meet on Mar 9 to consider buy back
• Visu International board meet on Mar 10 to consider
  Merger of Visu Films & Visu Communications with itself
  De-merger of Visu Publication & Media from itself
• MRTP pulls up ACC, Lafarge, Grasim and 4 others for cartelisation
• Cooking oil prices surge by Rs 8/kg
• Vishal Retail plans PE fund with a max size of Rs 200 cr - ET
• Infosys eyes buyouts in Europe, Japan, deal size in the range of $200-300m - ET
• Adani-GSPC-Essar consortium plans Rs 100000 cr LNG terminal - BS
• Jain Arrigation buys Swiss machine maker Thomas