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JANUARY 2, ../2005
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India's Best Banks
Fat treasury incomes, robust economic growth and an urge to purge meant that the big clean-up at public sector banks continued. But as this year's BT-KPMG survey reveals, the worst isn't over yet for India's banking industry.

The 3C Effect
As the Indian economy looks to integrate more into the global economy, the banking industry looks to keep pace. Key strategic elements: Capital, Consolidation and Corporate Governance.
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The Best Banks ../2004

The rankings of India's best banks. Read More

India's Best Banks: By The Numbers Read More

Top Of The Heap
For the second year in a row, HDFC Bank tops BT's list of best banks. Its secret: As always, not just robust growth, but superlative quality of assets. Read More

The Big Mama Of Banking
It is the market leader in every single retail segment it competes in. And before the
decade is out, ICICI Bank may well
become a global player.
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Two's Company
The stock market is still chary of the public
sector bank's GTB merger, but its Chairman
says that could well be the recipe for its
long-term success.
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From Boutique To Bazaar
He may call it a financial supermarket, but hardening interest rates have made Uday Kotak realise there's still no replacement for a good old-fashioned branch network. more...

  DB's Sweet Spot
Deutsche Bank India is happy being
a small corporate bank. Know why?
It's lucrative as hell.

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Seven Telecom
Trends For ../2005

India's most happening sector will only get even more happening next year. Here's what lies in store and why.
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End Game
In the mid-eighties, Dhirrubhai Ambani had vested all powers of ownership with the Chairman. Mukesh now appears set to benefit from the late patriarch's configuration of RIL's ownership. more...
 

60 Minutes
Maurice Levy, Chairman of the Management Board & CEO of the world's fourth- biggest marketing services conglomerate, the $4.83-billion Publicis Groupe, speaks to BT on a host of issues concerning the advertising business and Publicis.
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  Waiting For The Sun
With India's finance ministry clearing the reconstitution of the various entities under the Hutch umbrella into the ready-for-IPO Hutchison Essar, the stage is set for a 'public' showdown. more...
 
 

Cities On The Edge
Favoured business destinations Gurgaon, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and Hyderabad could become, thanks to poor infrastructure, victims of their own success. Read in-depth articles on each city. Plus personalised travel logs. Only at www.business-today.com.

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Moving On
Diluting stake in GECIS was like a child growing up and leaving home, feels Scott R. Bayman, President and CEO of GE India. In an exclusive interview with BT, he speaks his mind on a wide range of issues.


The iPod Effect
Now you see it, now you don't. All sub-visible phenomena have this mysterious quality to them. Sub-visible not just because Apple's hot new sensation, the handy little iPod, makes its physical presence felt so discreetly. But also because it's an audio wonder more than anything else. Expect more and more handheld gizmos to turn musical.

Panasonic
What route other than musical would Panasonic take, even for a phone handset, into consumer mindspace?
 
Bankable Equity
The banking sector is still on a roll. So which bank stocks should you buy?
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Life After Deming
It's the Nobel Prize of manufacturing, but auto's Deming Prize winners aren't resting on their laurels. more...

The Right Tzstuff
How to kid around the trenches of corporate warfare, and how to recap India after its 1991 reforms. more...
 

The Ayurveda Play
Miracle cures; rituals to propitiate the Hindu God of medicine; OTC drugs; herbal packaged foods; tie-ins with hotels, hospitals and FMCG companies; and a grant from the US' National Institutes of Health-it's all happening at the Coimbatore-based Arya Vaidya Pharmacy.
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People
Starring KPMG's Michael Rake, S. Naganath of DSP Merill Lynch, Baazee.com's Avinash Bajaj, Pradeep Guha of Zee Telefilms, and India's Investment Commission members: Ratan Tata of the Tata Group, HDFC's Deepak Parekh and former HLL Chairman Ashok Ganguly.
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Leadership Secrets by H.S. Bedi

The Equal Opportunity Mandate
The government's desire for reservations in the private sector will do more harm than good.
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The Next Act
The GTB saga refuses to die down even after the bank's merger with OBC.
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How The Cookie Crumbles
The story of a Lankan cookie king's acquisition travails in India.
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Stuck In India
Two companies that have ceased to be in India, yet haven't really gone away.
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Year ../2005 Bonanza
The New Year could be a cracking year for Indian job seekers across sectors and levels.
Help, Tarun!
Minor Surprises
Trading Salaries
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