BT
SPECIAL
India's
Most Investor
Friendly Companies
The
first-ever compilation
of companies that
investors love and
respect. We profile
the top 20.
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Murdoch
Vs Ambani Vs Chandra How India's most powerful
corporate group, one of the world's most powerful media barons,
and a homegrown entertainment conglo are making quiet moves for
a slice of the 42-million households, Rs 7,000-crore Indian cable
market. Only, it doesn't stop at cable.more...
A
Whole New Spin The death of quotas
starting 2005 could boost
India's textile and garment
exports from $14 billion to
$50 billion by 2010. more...
Gasping
For Growth Amidst
record agricultural growth
and a booming economy,
Hindustan Lever posts yet another
year of near-flat sales growth.
Will 2004 be any different?
more...
60
Minutes What's common to Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon,
and Calvin Coolidge? They were Presidents of America, and they were
also customers of New York Life. BT meets up with Gary Benanav, the
CEO of international operations. more...
BT
Roundtable Four
of India's top retailers and a consultant discuss issues concerning
the organised retail industry in India in a roundtable discussion
with Business Today. more...
India's
Young Super Performers Introducing an all-new
award to
recognise India's bright
young minds.
more...
Q&A: Donald
Stewart
He is Chairman and CEO, Sun Life Financial. A 138-year-old firm with
$14.6 billion in assets, it is Canada's largest financial services
company. And he's been at the helm during one of its most difficult
phases. He spoke to BT Online on the insurance business, acquisitions
and corporate governance. For excerpts, log on. More
Web Exclusives More
Net Specials
Muppet
Leap For Disney
Under pressure to show creative sparks, Disney has acquired Jim
Henson's famous Muppets. Surprised?
Institutional
Integration
There was a time many decades ago when India's state planners bestrode
the economy like giants. To finance the plans, they needed a set of
financial institutions that would lend money for all the projects.
Then came free market reforms, and they lost their relevance. The
solution?
Fastest
Growing Companies
There's something about rapid growth that's irresistible. For a run-down
of India's 21 Fastest Growing Companies, turn to the contents section
of this issue. And if there's some company you would like to know
a little bit more about, log on. BT Online presents details of each
of the 21 firms' operating circumstances, including details of its
competitive arena and how it is placed in it.
Six
Ratnas For Sale 'Navratnas' and 'mini-ratnas',
the top PSUs were called once.
Six of them are hawking their
shares. Interested?
more...
Of
Kancheepuram Silks And Karpagambal Idlis Cognizant Technology Solutions approaches each
of its acquisitions-it has made four to date-scientifically. Then,
there are the adventitious aids, like the silks and the idlis, which
help the company's integration process. more...
Labs
That Matter Most Two thoughtful books. One on
lab-testing the free market, and
another on India's democracy
experiment. more...
Leap
Of Faith The only Indian athlete to have ever won
a medal in a global meet and, arguably, the first professional athlete
in the country, Anju Bobby George is eyeing the gold at Athens.
more...
People Starring IT-smitten Chandra Srinivasan of AT
Kearney, do-gooder Munesh Khanna of NM Rothschild & Sons, audiophile
P.T. Siganporia of Tata Tea, legal Oscar winning firm Amarchand
Mangaldas' Shardul Shroff, elusive Nalco CMD
C. Venkataramana, and leading VC
Vinod Khosla. more...
African
Safari A host of factors has
generated a frenzied rush to make the most of a largely unexplored
but potentially rewarding market: Africa. more...
After
IT, What? Life sciences, actually.
And
Chandrababu Naidu's Hyderabad looks
set to win this race. more...
Super
Dealmaker Sterling's Chinakannan
Sivasankaran
is at it again: making winning deals
out of nothing. more...
Taxing
Affair With lawyers up in
arms, the National Tax Tribunal comes a cropper, for now at least.
more...
Street Eruption After a heady year
for stocks, Dalal Street has turned raucous again.
Help, Tarun!
Oops, I Slipped Up
Dear Oh Dear... more...
Job
Mania
