• GMR mops up funds for Orissa power project

Approvals, Clearances

• Twenty two FDI proposals cleared

• OMEL gets approval for refinery in Nigeria

• Government approves four laning of Pinjore-Nalagarh highway

MoUs signed

• Hero Motors signs MoU with BRP-Powertrain

• Tata Teleservices signs MoU with Hirco

General developments

• NHPC to foray into wind power

• JSW Energy eyes African coal mine

• M&S to launch 50 franchise stores

• Tatas Phase I-Eden Court to be launched shortly

• Bhushan Energy to supply 150 MW to Orissa from May

• Coromandel Fertilisers & SQM forms

• Paradip port issues LoA to Noble consortium

• L&T to enter power generation sector

General Investment Plans

• SKF's new unit in Haridwar

• Feasibility report on Leh-Bilaspur rail link project

• Puri Port plans 10 million tpa captive port

• Four Construction parks to come up in Kerala

• Reliance signs gas deals with nine power companies

• OVL, IOC to invest in Iran gas field

• Kerala PWD plans various projects

• Jaypee Group plans investment

• Petronet LNG eyes stakes in gas fields abroad

• Uttar Pradesh plans new ITIs, polytechnics

• Real Estate companies to invest in education sector

• MMRDA to lay 100-km monorail network in Mumbai