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   EDITORIALS
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 
Reliance on to a winner
  It is being dubbed a whopper of a deal that ends the controversial 15-year corporate saga of a failed hostile takeover. However, Grasim Industries’ acquisition of Reliance’s 10 per cent stake in Larsen & Toubro is also making waves because few deals have been so one-sided as this one.
The full circle
  The disinvestment ministry’s proposal to link restructuring of public sector undertakings with their privatisation reflects the pathetic state of affairs prevailing in state-owned enterprises.
   
Enforcing Diwali, ban on smoking et al
  There was a court direction. On Diwali night, crackers were to be burst between 6 and 10 in the evening. And the executive was supposed to implement this direction.
LEGAL BEAVER: Kumkum Sen
Onus is now on the regulator
  As a part of its WTO obligations, India is required to open up the insurance, banking, accounting and legal services sectors by 1st January, 2005 to global competition.
EAVESDROPPER: Kaun saa Joshi?
  The guards posted at the residence of union human resource and science and technology minister, Murli Manohar Joshi, seem to be an extremely pre-occupied bunch of individuals.

   ANALYSIS
Trade and environment: ‘Trade off’ at Doha is no loss
  While India is rejoicing on major gains in several areas of the hard-fought agenda of the fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation, it is a bit upset on the inclusion of environment in the Ministerial Declaration.
STATES: Joseph Vackayil
Staff agitations put TN on a slippery road
  Not just something, but many things are rotten in the state of Tamil Nadu. What is surprising is that the decay has been so sudden, and the government seems clueless. Transport workers are on strike.
Primitive accumulation versus the rule of law
  Some of the politicians and civil servants who made money used it to live well, fulfilling their feudal dreams. Some who knew the ropes sent the money abroad. But a substantial proportion of them looked to the opportunities in the market for investment.
INDIA AND THE WORLD — SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa-India bilateral trade picks up well despite a late start
  Bilateral trade between India and South Africa started in 1993 since earlier there were trade restrictions on account of apartheid pursued by the then South African regime.
 
   
 
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