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	How To Win Friends And Influence People... ...and still get your way. Just ask India's Finance Minister P Chidambaram. His third budget, and the United Progressive Alliance's first is, better believe it, reformist. That's a relief! Interview: P. Chidambaram The Finance Minister speaks to BT on a host of issues including the controversial turnover tax, delivery systems for agriculture allocations, the Investment Commission and his target for economic growth. Read More A Hung Budget That's the verdict of the six-member Board of India Today Economists (BITE). Read More A Mixed Bag What India Inc thinks of Budget 2004. A BT CEO poll. Read More The Five-minute Budget For those readers who have neither the time nor the inclination, a quick tour of the Budget. Read More

It's Genetic

Budget 2004 once
again demonstrates
P. Chidambaram's
expertise with numbers.
Could this be the secret
behind it?
Read More

FMs And Film
The Indian Finance Minister isn't above humour... Read More

Timing The Budget
The Budget And Us
Coalition Budgets
A Mirror To The CMP
The Rule Of Five
Budget Impact





	Hi-tech Nation Time was, when India was just a source of smart & warm bodies for tech multinationals. Today, thanks to a telecom and financial services boom, it is a market that is just too big to ignore. more...		To Catch A Star Already the market leader in India, Star TV's plans of launching newer channels with lower ad rates could trigger a nasty war in the Indus try. more...




	Virtual Luck Online lottery Playwin may have made 42 people millionaires at least 10 times over, but two years after the genre's launch, most online lottery companies are playing a market where the odds are increasingly stacked against them. more...		60 Minutes On his first visit to India, Stephen Joynt, President & CEO of Fitch Ratings, the third largest rating agency in the world that introduced the popular "AAA to D" rating system, speaks to BT on his company's philosophy and plans. more...




	The Roadhouse Rocks There's a long road ahead paved with huge, lucrative and virgin opportunities for India's retail sector. more...		BT Crossfire 'You Cannot Create A Great Brand Without Advertising' was the debate's motion. Gurcharan Das spoke for; Nandan Nilekani against.. more...




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Attention Span Telecom, civil aviation and insurance share this in common: they are all markets that have government-imposed entry barriers for varied reasons. This alters the dynamics of competition in these markets, and in different ways. But still, they must all hope for a customer with a long attention span. More Web Exclusives More Net Specials



Q&A: Jim Spohrer One-time venture capital man and currently Director, Services Research, IBM Almaden Research Lab, Jim Spohrer is betting big on the future of 'services sciences'. And while at it, he's also busy working with anthropologists and other social scientists who look quite out of place in a company of geeks. So what exactly is the man—and IBM's lab—up to?

NBIC Ambitions NBIC? Well, Nanotech, Biotech, Infotech and Cognitive Sciences. They could pack quite some power, together.

Market Research Jitters The big market research (MR) problem: people, when asked, often tell you what they think you want to hear rather than what they really think.







	Your Armchair Strategy You can be your own portfolio manager, sitting right there, by adopting this simple investment practice. more...		Spinning An Indian Web How do you take an American cultural icon and Indianise it? That's the challenge Gotham India faced with Spider-Man. And here's how it managed the transition of Peter Parker to Pavitr Prabhakar. more...




	Imaginatively Overstretched An anthropologist deconstructs Indian advertising, a consultant urges childhood wisdom and a taxman combats money laundering. more...		Olympic Factory World-class multi-sport training facilities spread over 400 acres in India? IMG Academies may, in fact, be open for admissions in September 2006 in Hyderabad-provided the new state government doesn't throw a spanner in the works. more...




	People Starring Sunil Alagh of SKA Advisors, Phaneesh Murthy of iGate, M. Damodaran of UTI, sparring Verghese Kurien of GCMMF and Amrita Patel of NDDB, HLL's M.S. Banga and Centurion Bank's Rana Talwar. more...		Global Ideas Leadership Secrets by R.V. Shastri





	Now Wait For Next Year Why Budget 2005-06 could well be a blockbuster. more... Rs 500 Only… …as airfare from Delhi to Bangalore. Air Deccan has some interesting plans up its sleeve. more... The Rs 2,000-crore Question Who will inherit Priyamvada Birla's empire? There appears to be no clear heir-apparent. more... Mirage No More The long-delayed Bangalore International Airport may finally become a reality. more...		Heads And Masters Residential school headmasters are being head-hunted like top execs. Why? Help, Tarun! The Secretary Pageant Renewed Incursion more...


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