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  The
      Empire Strikes Back They’re late, but they’re
      here. Now Reliance’s Anil and Mukesh Ambani plan to launch a full
      service offensive that could make them the only real threat to India’s
      public sector telecom monopolies.
 Corporates
      BPL
      Innovision's Resurrection Plans
 WiLL may deal a blow to its cellular plans and it
      may have put its broadband aspirations on hold, but CEO Rajeev
      Chandrasekhar has a strategy that could change the company’s fortunes.
 The
      Bear HuntThe noose tightens around the bear cartel, which abused the stock
      lending system in its bid to hammer stock prices. The members of the
      coterie include the former BSE president.
 The
      Curious Case Of Shankar SharmaEveryone’s quick to damn First Global’s Shankar
      Sharma. Is the man simply being victimised for doing his job, or did he
      use prior knowledge of the Tehelka investigation to market advantage?
 Why
      Mallya's Broken It UpBy splitting UB into two Mallya may actually be able to unlock the
      shareholder value latent in the company.
 A
      Sensational P2PTehelka may have missed out cashing in on the
      commercial aspect of its explosive investigation, but the dotcom does have
      a reasonably strong revenue model for the future.
 How
      Hughes Plans To Avoid The Big ChillTrue, the slowdown in the US Economy could hurt this
      telco-focused software company, but CEO Arun Kumar is strangely speaking
      of triple-digit growth.
 Duncans:
      Restructuring Episode IVFlat sales and plummeting profits mean G.P. Goenka
      cannot afford to put off restructuring flagship company Duncans any
      longer.
 Copper
      HopesIts fertiliser business in disarray because of the
      subsidy regime, Indo-Gulf is forced to look to its copper business for
      survival.
 InterviewA
      Chat With A Dotcom Dr Frankenstein
 His name is Jeff Taylor, and he’s the guy who
      founded Monster.com, the most profitable of cyberspace’s innumerable job
      portals.
 Policy WatchOn
      Slippery Ground
 With crucial issues remaining to be tackled, the
      deregulation of the oil sector could skid out of control.
 FeaturesDeath
      And The Indian Small Business
 Two lakh sick units, a
      thousand suicides, mass immigration of workers as units shut shop, Rs
      2,000 crore-plus of unpaid debts…Is this the end for the small
      businessman?
 Face-to-Face
      With Noel TichyLong-time GE observer and
      renowed leadership guru Noel Tichy speaks to BT on the making of a great
      leader.
 When
      The Network Goes Down......the cellular one did,
      and there were enough good tech-reasons for it to. But there are none that
      can explain why Airtel chose to play it down.
 Personal FinanceNine
      Ways To Prevent Your Investment Portfolio From Tanking
 The markets may be unpredictable, and debt instruments may not look
      so good now, but there's no reason to panic. Managed wisely, your
      portfolio could see you through.
 Case GameThe
      Case Of Post-Acquisition Strategy
 How will Sunrise integrate the
      formerly state-owned Alco into its umbrella? Ajit Kumar of
      Accenture, Prashant Srivastava of TSM, and Haresh Shah of
      mergersindia.com discuss.  Send us your solution which scrutinises the problems in companies like yours. We'll
      showcase the best solutions on-line.
 
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 TrendsYour link to the world of policy
      development, corporate happenings, industry news,
      and market trends
 BT
    dot.com Cover Story
 Unable to make their websites pay,
      dotcoms are starting to hire out proprietary domain expertise, and just
      about anything else for which
 they can find a market.
 Passionfund's
      PassionGoing by some old-fashioned
      rules of investing, two small-time angels have racked up a dotcom
      portfolio that may actually pay.
 New
      Accounting NormsICAI’s new guidelines may rid
      dotcoms of dubious accounting practices.
 What's
      HotRediff’s NRI-acquisitions,
      Ericsson’s wireless internet plans, Railways’ internet mantra, an
      interview with Planetasia’s Anand Sudarshan, and all about XML.
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      Tarun!!! Building Me-Inc.: Sabbaticals, Executive Tracking
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