State any four diversified areas in which the Tata group entered in the later half of the 20th century.

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Ans: Tata group entered in several businesses from airlines to hotels, trucks to locomotives, soda ash and other heavy chemicals to pharmaceuticals and financial services, tea and air conditioning to lipsticks and cologne in the last half of the 20th century. 

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