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	India Inc. At Sea A buoyant corporate India discovers just how much of a dampener poor urban infrastructure can be. Mumbai, where India Inc. lost some Rs 20,000 crore, today. Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, or Hyderabad tomorrow. Our Precarious Cities Mumbai yesterday. Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, and Hyderabad soon. Read More Why Politicians Hate Cities Simple, because they do not elect them. Read More How Good Are Our Cities? An exclusive survey of 246 CEOs and senior executives across five metros on what India Inc. thinks of Indian's cities. The findings. Read More BT SPECIAL Here Come The Big Guns Suddenly, India is the hottest story among global private equity investors. For India's budding risk capital industry, that's both good and bad news. Read More The Who's Who Of Private Equity Risk capital comes in all shapes and sizes; often there are no demarcations. Read More

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Deals By The Numbers

A look at the PE Deal Land so far this year and the whole of last.
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The Landmark Deals
It takes courage and imagination to do novel deals. No wonder, there aren't too many of them. Read More

Do VCs Really Add Value?
With private equity increasingly investing in mature listed companies, it's getting harder to say yes to that question.
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The Individual As An Institution
Increasingly, global investors are willing to put money behind individuals. Read More

Problem Of Plenty
What happens when too much money starts chasing too few deals? Read More





	Mukesh Ambani Consolidates... His grand plans for RIL include doubling capacity at the Jamnagar refinery and having a global presence. more...		...Anil Ambani Starts Off There has been no dearth of action from the younger brother. more...



	Labour Pains Left-inspired trade union activities and labour unrest are rising across the country. It's time the government reined in its "allies". Else, it can squander away the gains of liberalisation. more...		Just What (The) Oracle Ordered Citigroup's decision to sell its 41 per cent stake in banking software firm i-flex to Oracle is in the best interests of everyone concerned. So, why are we not smiling? more...


	60 Minutes Sidney Taurel, Chairman, President and CEO of the $13.9-billion Eli Lilly, speaks to BT about the opportunities for Big Pharma in India and his company's new model. more...		Riding Out Of The Trough Things are looking up at Dr Reddy's Labs. First quarter profits are up and the stock has gained some of the lost ground. Finally, the worst may be behind the pharma major. more...





	Unearthing Value All other factors remaining equal, what could tilt the balance in an MF's favour is its NAV. more...		Striking Gold Volumes in the 18-month-old commodity futures market are growing rapidly. more...










Changing Equation Mid-rung Indian pharmaceutical companies such as Lupin, Torrent, Strides Arcolab and others are looking at global acquisitions to bolster their product portfolios and growth prospects. Will the strategy pay off? More Web Exclusives More Net Specials

State Of Apathy Lesson from Mumbai: India's cities are dangerously ill-prepared to tackle nature's fury. Here's what India's CEOs think of her urban hell-holes.

Monsoon Business The economic agenda for Parliament this session. And what it could mean for India Inc. if the Government actually manages to get some work done.

Redefining Consumer Finance Jurg von Känel, a researcher at IBM's J. Watson Research Centre, and his colleagues are working on analytical software that would simplify consumer finance and make it more secure as well. An oxymoron? Känel doesn't think so.








	The Peters Principle Pocket-sized advice from the rock star of management, a tome on the inevitability of offshoring, and lessons in business innovation. more...		A Dalliance With The Winged... ...and moneyed. BT trawls through TiE-ISB Connect ../2005 and comes back with a startling discovery. Start-ups are back in fashion. more...




	People Starring Ravi Kant of Tata Motors, TRAI's Harsh Vardhana Singh, RIL's Dipak Jain, Bharti's Jai Menon, Cadbury India's Bharat Puri and Provogue's Salil Chaturvedi. more...		Leadership Secrets by Kamal Meattle





	The Dialectics Of A Red Dilemma The Left in India, despite its strident image, is going through a process of soul searching. Will it find a middle ground? more... One India Some telcos have already stopped discriminating between local and STD calls. more... PCs Break The Price Barrier HCL Infosystems launches a personal computer below the Rs 10,000 mark. Will it pry open the mass market? more... Policy Watch: The Pension Bill Hangs Fire Its passage in the monsoon session is unlikely. more...		IT May Be Your Call India's IT-enabled services industry is moving up the value ladder, creating job opportunities. Help, Tarun! Job-hunter Go South Jobs For Supply Side People more...


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