• Year of prudent fiscal reforms in Maharashtra

• Economic slowdown hits auto industry in 2001

• Promoters up the ante in the face of takeover threats

• IRDA to say sayonara to New Delhi, but not to reforms

• Economy in a tailspin, but hopes of revival linger

• The chips were down for the IT industry

• India aims to become the world's back-office

• Slowdown remained stumbling block for divestment

• Indian media may have come of age in 2001

• Indian pharma industry takes giant strides

• Jobs lost, salaries cut, but India relatively unscathed

• India's first-generation power reforms a failure

• Tourism reels under terror attacks

• Myriad hurdles keep civil aviation from soaring

• Banks wage war against defaulters in 2001

• Export nightmares giving sleepless nights to economy

• Of labour welfare schemes and voluntary retirement

• Foreign equity in print media still a distant dream

• Inflation plummets, but is the economy in fine fettle?

• Record 40% growth in FDI inflows in Jan-Sep 2001

• Indian equity funds to see better 2002

• Rupee falls over 3.6% vs dollar in 2001

• Slow, noisy year for M&As

• ONGC, RIL most profitable

• Turnover plunges by Rs 14.9 trillion

• Only 350 firms increased shareholder wealth

• New issues touch seven-year low

Column

• So what will the new year be like for the economy
'A proactive govt could help boost the economy,' says R C Murthy.

Major Business Events of 2001

• Capital Markets Crisis / • UTI Crisis / • Enron Saga

• Divestment / • Air-India / • Balco / • India and WTO

• Union Budget / • Rail Budget / Exim Policy / • Credit Policy