TOP HEADLINES
• RBI doubles forex limit for private visits
• High fiscal deficit may impede growth: RBI
• Reliance to offer cheapest telecoms service
• Senior UK official arrives Wed on 6-day visit
• Porters' strike hits Indo-Bangla border trade
• Jayalalithaa seeks Australian investment
• India, Afghanistan keen to boost trade
• PIL challenging divestment policy dismissed
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MUTUAL FUND NEWS
• UTI sales cross Rs 3,000 cr this year
• HSBC MF launches four schemes
• Tata Liquid Fund declares dividend
• Good show by IDBI Principal Income Fund

CORPORATE HEADLINES
• Mishap at Suven Pharma's Suryapet factory
• BSE revises special margin on 42 scrips
• Telco clarifies on news item
• JK Corp Director resigns
• JBCPL launches Lek-Pamidol
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MARKET REPORT
Heavyweight stocks lift Sensex by 23 points
Sustained buying in old economy stocks. Selling pressure from UTI in blue-chip stocks like RIL, HLL.

DAILY TECHNICALS
Trading strategy for November 20, 2002
Sensex, Essel Packaging, Hindalco, NIIT, Sesa Goa... Check out what you can do on Wednesday.

SPECIAL
The Jumbo Group's hidden protagonist
Though Komal Wazir insists she is hands-off, the pace of things has picked up at Shaw Wallace.

THE BILL GATES VISIT
'Bill Gates is a very shrewd businessman'
Your View: Gates's visit, charity or business? • 'My trip's very exciting' I Complete coverage

PERSONAL FINANCE
Year-end is time for best deals on wheels
It is time to drive a hard bargain. Here are some tips on how to make the most of a buyers' market.

More on Kelkar panel's tax proposals
A N Shanbhag dissects the Kelkar Committee's propositions.

STOCK TALK
'Divestment program is over'
'Market needs new FII money to go up. But China has opened up to FIIs, which will drag money from India,' says Ramesh Shrichand Damani.

COLUMN
ECIL: A public sector success story
ECIL was able to achieve a turnaround in three years which is nothing short of spectacular, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.

PRESS RELEASES
• 'Making a killing: The business of war'
• Infy plans disaster recovery unit in Mauritius
• Feroz Khan gets teacher's award
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