Oil Country Tubular claws back
Oil Country Tubular (OCTL) is yet another company that currently enjoys the benefits of catering to the oil industry. OCTL supplies the oil industry (mainly ONGC) with tubes and pipes that are used in drilling operations.

Delhi, Islamabad ape "macho" nations
The euphoria in India over the nuclear tests at Pokharan was generated as much by the disapproval of the United States as by the triumphalist response the tests represented to the old adversary, Pakistan.

Shaping insurance
Insurance liberlisation is round the corner. Parliamentary approval for inducting private insurers should be a smooth affair with the Congress in favour of ending the monopoly of the public sector LIC and GIC.

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