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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. Read More

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. more...		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. more...




	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. more...






	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. more...		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. more...		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. More Web Exclusives More Net Specials



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? more...		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. more...




	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. more...		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. more... The Next Act The GTB saga refuses to die down even after the bank's merger with OBC. more... How The Cookie Crumbles The story of a Lankan cookie king's acquisition travails in India. more... Stuck In India Two companies that have ceased to be in India, yet haven't really gone away. more...		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 more...


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