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Thursday, January 03, 2002 
Cleaning up UTI
  The Unit Trust of India is a colossal mess, but given the circumstances, the current bailout has been structured carefully to minimise the damage.
Trade and tactics
  The good news on the export front for the month of November is another welcome silver lining. It remains to be seen though whether this is a blip or an intimation of a turnaround.
   
Time the nation got back to business
  2001 is probably best forgotten. The global economy went into a tailspin and governments and central banks fought recession for much of the year. The US kept cutting interest rates to goad companies to invest and consumers to spend.
INDIAN COCKTAIL: Subhash Agrawal
The art of crisis management
  Ikram Sehgal, a Pakistani analyst says that “There is everything to gain and everything to lose in the shadow of possible nuclear conflagration, but the Hindu civilization can be obliterated almost in its entirety and the Muslim civilization only partly.
EAVESDROPPER: Hard nut to crack
  With some of the most high profile economic cases being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, it’s but natural that corporate conversations often veer around to the man at the helm of the investigating agency.

   ANALYSIS
SPOTLIGHT: P K Vasudeva
Pak firm duplicating Russian arms under copyright violations
  A Pakistani defence firm has been caught blatantly duplicating Russian arms at an international exhibition in Turkey, according to reports.
FARM FRONT: Ashok B Sharma
Circa 2002 likely to set the trend for biotech development
  Hopefully, circa 2002 will set the trend for the decade of biotechnology with the release of the first transgenic crop, Bt cotton for commercial cultivation in the country.
How safe are Indian ports from terrorist activities?
  International intelligence agencies are monitoring the movement of at least 20 merchant vessels in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
LEGAL EYE: Amit K Vyas
Protecting companies against double jeopardy
  Our Constitution has, vide Article 20(2), stipulated that no person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once.
ECO-WATCH: Alejandro Lifschitz
Argentina may abandon the peso/dollar peg
  Argentina’s new President Eduardo Duhalde, facing massive pressure to save the economy from a four-year recession, could abandon or radically change the country’s one-to-one currency peg to the dollar, his advisers said on Tuesday.
 
   
 
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