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Business Today, April 21, 2001The 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 Hunt
The 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 Sharma
Everyone’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 Up
By splitting UB into two Mallya may actually be able to unlock the shareholder value latent in the company.

A Sensational P2P
Tehelka 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 Chill
True, 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 IV
Flat sales and plummeting profits mean G.P. Goenka cannot afford to put off restructuring flagship company Duncans any longer.

Copper Hopes
Its fertiliser business in disarray because of the subsidy regime, Indo-Gulf is forced to look to its copper business for survival.

Interview
A 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 Watch
On Slippery Ground
With crucial issues remaining to be tackled, the deregulation of the oil sector could skid out of control.

Features
Death 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 Tichy
Long-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 Finance
Nine 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 Game
The 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 discussSend us your solution which scrutinises the problems in companies like yours. We'll showcase the best solutions on-line.

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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 Passion
Going by some old-fashioned rules of investing, two small-time angels have racked up a dotcom portfolio that may actually pay.

New Accounting Norms
ICAI’s new guidelines may rid dotcoms of dubious accounting practices.

What's Hot
Rediff’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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