More on Reliance & their uncanny link with the stock markets... DAtes usually are somewhere near some tops...
1992: Reliance becomes the first Indian company to make a Euro GDR
April 1992: The Harshad Mehta securities scam blows up. Reliance's involvement is widely suspected.
1994: Makes the second global depository receipt (GDR) issue.
1995-96: Reliance becomes the first private sector company to be rated by international credit rating agencies.
Nov. 1995: Reliance threatens to delist itself from the Bombay Stock Exchange, which it accuses of siding with bear operators. BSE refuses delisting.
1996-97: The Rs 9,000-crore Hazira complex goes on stream. Reliance becomes the first corporate in Asia to issue 50- and 100-year bonds in the US debt market.
2002: Reliance Petroleum merges with Reliance Industries. The new company acquires a 26 per cent stake in IPCL, India's No. 2 petrochem company.
At the bottom of the bear Market ????
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December 31, 2001 - Shri Harshad Mehta Passed Away.
July 6, 2002 - Shri Dhirubhai Ambani Passed Away.