NSE miffed over delay in stock-lending
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) is miffed over the decision of UTI and the Stock Holding Corporation of India (SHCIL) to delay stocklending activities by pushing back the deadline for the same by another two months. The NSE had been approached by UTI and SHCIL to join hands with it after the exchange itself decided to become a stocklending intermediary.

Tea traders pledge to guard "Darjeeling" label
Tea planters in India's Himalayan town of Darjeeling have launched a campaign to protect ``Darjeeling'' branded tea from alleged foreign imitation. A Belgium watchdog agency, Compumark, has been appointed on March 1, 1998, to detect use of the word ``Darjeeling'' in branded tea in the international market.

Centre to permit palmolein futures soon
The Centre and the Forward Markets Commission are likely to formally clear applications for futures trading in palmolein around mid-1998. Permission for an additional centre for turmeric futures may also be granted.

  Registrars told to assign reason for dematerialisation plea rejection
  Takeover rumours propel CESC scrip into the limelight on bourses
  Domestic silver on the recovery path
  Nutmeg production registers steep fall despite increase in area under crop
  Turmeric prices may increase
  Burundi coffee output seen at 25,000 tonnes
  Domestic cardamom sluggish on declining international prices
  Board to plan strategies for cardamom
  Steel prices slip back to pre-budget level
  Yellow metal prices may pick up
  Crash on LME forces domestic copper major to lower prices
  Australian wool set to face yet another tough year ahead
  "FM's cotton crop estimates unreal"
  Commodity futures trading
  Monsoon fails to pep up truck freight rates
  Agriculture ministry set to handle locust threat
  New Asia crude fields may add to oil glut
  "Fertiliser consumption needs to be encouraged"
  Centre puts solvent extractors in a spot