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AUGUST 29, 2004

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	Fast Company The inside story of how Infosys plans to grow bigger and better, then, bigger and better still... BT SPECIAL Time For Change The collapse of Global Trust Bank is a rude reminder of how fragile India's banking system really is and of the urgent need to do something about it. Read More The Urge To Merge As competition stiffens and the need for capital requirement goes up, many banks will have little choice but to merge or go under. Read More

BT SPECIAL
Who Fouled Up?

The inside story on the collapse of Global Trust Bank, the bank that Ramesh Gelli first
built and then bulldozed.
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EVENT
BT Crossfire
'The South is just a translator's destination' was the topic at the Chennai event. While in Kolkata, the topic was: 'Advertising in Kolkata: business or ideas?
Read More





	Healing The World A clutch of state-of-the-art, but relatively low-cost, hospitals has become the centre of a booming new industry: medical tourism. more...		60 Minutes Charles E. Phillips Jr., President of Oracle Corp., the world's second largest software company, speaks to BT on India, China, and Oracle's hostile attempt to take over PeopleSoft. more...




	A Golden Opportunity Having cornered the world diamond-cutting and polishing business, Indian jewellers have set their sights on the $56-billion global market for gold jewellery. more...		The Culture Red Herring Money, not anything else, seems to be at the bottom of the recent exodus of former Andersen global partners from Ernst & Young. more...




	Global Glory, Indian Groan A recent ACNielsen global study shows personal products growth in India faltering even while it booms almost everywhere. more...		Motocross Classic With the Honda juggernaut ready to storm the Indian mobike market, rivals Bajaj Auto and Hero Honda firm up plans to defend their turf. more...




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Farm As A Freeway The World Trade Organisation's latest agreement in Geneva has come as a relief to all those countries that had almost given up on Western countries reducing farm subsidies. At long last, they have budged on this sore point of the Doha round. But what about non-tariff barriers? Farm trading remains riddled with problems. More Web Exclusives More Net Specials



Sugar Trade Sugar production has its own share of world trade quarrels. A non-sweetened look at the scenario.

The Bottle Is It? With Neville Isdell the new boss in Atlanta, The Coca-Cola Company is busy reinforcing its bottling operations in its strategic scheme of global success. Distribution 'push' is the new game. But will this weaken the 'consumer pull' of its brand? Will it be more about chiller-space than mindspace?

Whiz Craft Arrow has slowly been sharpening its appeal. Quiver constancy, though, could still take some time.







	Inflation Investing With inflation rising and the rupee falling, you need to think again. more...		Pangs Of Growth? There need not be any. Not with access infrastructure software around. That's what LG Electronics, ICICI Lombard and Indraprastha Apollo have found. more...




	Who Knows Better Multitudes versus the individual, that eternal debate, plus the edge granted by passion and the love of JRD's life. more...		Boxwallah Redux Kolkata's clubs still preserve their age-old boxwallah culture. The world may have moved on, but here, time stands still, and the clubs are proud of it. more...




	People Starring Anil D. Ambani of Reliance Industries, Arun Sarin of Vodafone, K. Vaidyanathan of Autopartsasia, Gopal Srinivasan of TVS Electronics and Dr. Henning Kaggerman of SAP AG more...		Global Ideas Leadership Secrets by B. Muthuraman





	The Bulls Are Back… …but with rising oil prices, inflation and interest rates, do they have the legs to keep running? more... Products Vs Services As far as IT goes, services are a better bet. more... Conflicting Signals SBI slashes rates on fixed deposits; HDFC goes the other way. What gives? more... Popular Demand The TCS IPO is oversubscribed 7.7 times. But what will happen on listing day? more...		Surviving The Churn Managements do churn. But the survival instinct is strong too. Help, Tarun! Headhunting Etiquette Tech Intake more...


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