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Was
the Tata board ignorant about Niskalp?
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In the 1990s, when Ratan Tata
gradually got rid of Russi Mody, Ajit Kerkar and Darbari Seth
— the powerful satraps of the business empire — there were many
who applauded his consolidation drive. For the first time the
Group put in place a retirement policy, tightened the control
of Tata Sons over the group companies and began to claim a fee
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Back
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Producing the new improved
12 page saral income tax return form has evidently been a labour
of love. Passion and creativity are written all over it. Only
someone utterly devoted to sarkari paper, someone denied the
joys of playing with sub-clauses and sub-sections for the last
three years, could have come up with this one. |
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Unity
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It would be an exaggeration
to suggest that the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC) has arrived at a common position on the subject of whether
there should be a new round of multilateral trade negotiations
under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation. It is certainly
the case that SAARC put up a common front of sorts and has expressed
similar concerns about the unequal nature of the existing multilateral
trading system. |
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Infrastructure
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The sluggishness in India’s
industrial growth continues unabated. Six core sectors — which
constitute the country’s infrastructure — slowed to a 1.2 per
cent growth in July 2001 from 6.1 per cent in the same month
of last year. |
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EAVESDROPPER:
Guerrilla
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The
Congress party’s resident socialist Mani Shankar Aiyar was at
his radical best at a discussion on second generation reforms
at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. |
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