Stocks in news:

• FIIs may get approval to invest in Indian Depositary Receipts – ET
• ICICI Bank sells $275m worth risky papers, will help to cut down MTM losses – ET
• TCS leads the race to acquire Citi's BPO, deal size pegged at $500-550m - ET
• M&M says
  Not interested in buying General Motors’ “Hummer” brand
  Will focus on its own models for US market
• M&M working in electric car bigger than Reva – FE
• Ambuja Cement to hike prices by Rs 20/bag – ET
• Sobha Developers to sell stake in 3 SPVs, in talks with PE players to raise funds – DNA
• Punj Lloyd consortium bids for Singapore's maiden LNG import terminal project worth $1bn – ET
• ONGC
  Acquires 30% In CB-ON-7 Pramoda Block From HOEC
  Alert: HOEC Stake In CB-ON-7 Pramoda Block Down To 35% Post Stake Sale
  Alert: Provisions For ONGC Increasing Stake Was In Products Sharing Contract
• ADAG To Launch DTH Svcs Today Under Reliance Big TV
• Net Telephony freed, call rates set to plunge
• Roche vs Cipla case in Delhi HC to come up for hearing again today
• Re-listing:
  Vintage Cards; no circuit filter today
  Marathwada Refractories from Aug 22
• Jyothy Laboratories board meet on August 27 to consider stock split
• Berger Paints buys Poland’s Bolix from PE co Advent International
• Spanco Telesystems bags Rs 70 cr order from Orissa govt
• Punjab Chem to raise Rs 250 cr via GDR in next 6 months - BS
• Take Solutions, Four Soft merger ratio likely in 2 weeks - BS
• Satyam delays hikes, payout to be smaller this year - Mint
• Subhash Projects, Emco to jointly acquire 83% stake in Indonesian Coal mine for Rs 300 cr – Mint
• Bajaj group increases stake in Mukand by 2% to 43%
• NMDC signs MoU with Rio Tinto to develop iron ore mines in India & overseas: NW18
• Board meetings:
  HEG on buyback
  Nirma results
• In T2T from Aug 22:
  Bombay Burmah, Dwarikesh Sugar, Global Vectra, Goa Carbon, HMT, Insecticides (India), ITI, Lloyds Steel, Petron Engineering, Sabero Organics, Selan Exploration
• Out of T2T from Aug 22:
  Autoline Industries, Bang Overseas, Broadcast Initiatives, Cambridge Solutions, CCL Products, HOV Services, Indus Fila, Rohit Ferro, Shree Ashtavinayak, SMS Pharma, Tamilnadu  Petro, Usha Martin Infotech