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Mumbai, November 30:: India's top conglomerate Tatas, which became highly visible globally for aggressive takeovers and international expansion, seem to have hit a rough patch and are confronting problems in a number of businesses ranging from hotels to cars to steel.

Even as the group, led by charismatic Ratan Tata, was busy tackling the impact of the global slowdown and cutting costs and hunting for resources to fund their global trophies like Jaguar and Land Rover, it has now been hit by terror attack at its landmark property, the Taj hotel, in Mumbai.

While the group continues to hog the media space, for about a year now, it is mostly for the wrong reasons -- be it the Nano controversy, plant closures and layoffs in the steel and auto businesses, terror attacks at the Taj hotel and Ratan Tata's resultant criticism of the Government.

This is in sharp contrast to the things till less than a year ago, when Tata was being termed as the face of India Inc in the global arena, the takeover tycoon and overall an undisputed corporate leader of the country with a presence in businesses ranging from making salt packs priced at a few rupees to luxury cars worth lakhs.

After the terror attacks in Mumbai earlier this week, Tata came out with strong criticism of the Government, saying it was unfortunate that nothing has been learnt from the past strikes by the terrorists and there was still not an effective crisis infrastructure in place.

Then talking to American news channel CNN, Tata said that the terror attacks revealed deficiencies in law enforcement, especially in the areas of crisis response and management.