Stocks in news:

• Indian ADRs:
  Dr Reddy's down 5%
• Lakshmi Vilas Bank goes ex-bonus (1:2), ex-rights (1:1), enters ND period
• Ex-dividend:
  Rolta (Rs 4 per share)
• NSE bars further F&O positions in Essar Oil as 95% marketwide position limit is hit
• SRF out of NSE F&O trading curb
• M&M to acquire majority stake in German forging company Schoeneweiss; Deal may be USD 500 million - Sources
• Nuke deal passed by senate: Hindustan Const, L&T, Rolta, BEL, BHEL and NTPC in focus
• PCB says to look at Zee-Ten deal (Ten sports has rights for Pak cricket till March 2008 and Zee is perceived to be anti-Pakistan in Pakistan)
• ICC meet today to discuss telecast rights issue; decision may not come today
• SAB TV board meet today to consider expansion plan
• RBI allows FIIs buying up to:
  100% in Gateway Distriparks
  40% in Glenmark
  49% in IDFC
  74% in Zicom
• Gulf Oil bags Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) mining projects
• Tata's eye Daewoo Romania unit - TOI
• Government plans Re 1/sq ft cess on commercial properties - ET
• Hiedelberg may buy 20% in Gujarat Sidhee - ET
• Chemplast Sanmar buys chemical businesses of Egypt's Trust Chemical Industries for USD 200 million
• Essar group in talks tp buy stake in Australia's Cape Lambert, plans to invest Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) to set up plant - BS
• GSPC strikes oil again, yield expected to be 1,400 barrels/day - DNA
• Balrampur Chini Jul-Sep:
  Net profit at Rs 32.03 crore versus Rs 34.6 crore
  Net sales up 35% at Rs 388.22 crore versus Rs 287.5 crore
  EBIDTA at Rs 58.83 versus Rs 56.4 crore
  EBIDTA margins at 15.15% versus 19.5%